[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#852697: Bug#852697: gnupg-agent: automatically starts gpg-agent in root user slice

[Laurent Bonnaud]

On 05/02/2017 10:08, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:

> Were you able to isolate what's launching the process?

Yes I finally took the time to test all apt hooks and found the cause: it is 
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/11daptup from package daptup.

Should I reassign the bug?

> btw, that gpg-agent process is a systemd user service.  when root fully
> logs out of the machine, that user service should also terminate.
> perhaps its running might cause you less worry if you know it will get
> cleaned up at logout?

It is more complicated than that: since I have cron-apt on my system, a new gpg-agent process is spawned automatically each night and does not go away.

-- 
Laurent.