weird multiple password prompts problem

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+### Please describe the problem.
+
+When I login to my session, git-annex starts a few daemons, which is fine, but then it prompts me for tons of passwords, which is really annoying.
+
+It is strange because one of the things I do when I start my session is to input my keys in the SSH agent. But then git-annex still prompts me:
+
+~~~~
+21503 ?        Sl     3:04 git-annex assistant --startdelay=5s
+21517 ?        S      0:03  \_ git --git-dir=/srv/musique/anarcat/books/.git --work-tree=/srv/musique/anarcat/books cat-file --batch
+21612 ?        SNl    0:00  \_ git-annex remotedaemon
+21706 ?        S      0:00  \_ git --git-dir=/srv/musique/anarcat/books/.git --work-tree=/srv/musique/anarcat/books check-ignore -z --stdin --verbose --non-matching
+21898 ?        SN     0:00  \_ git --git-dir=/srv/musique/anarcat/books/.git --work-tree=/srv/musique/anarcat/books check-attr -z --stdin annex.backend annex.numcopies --
+ 6712 ?        SNl    0:00  \_ git-annex transferkeys
+ 6719 ?        SN     0:00      \_ git --git-dir=/srv/musique/anarcat/books/.git --work-tree=/srv/musique/anarcat/books cat-file --batch
+ 6720 ?        SN     0:00      \_ rsync --progress --inplace --perms -e 'ssh' '-S' '.git/annex/ssh/anarc.at' '-o' 'ControlMaster=auto' '-o' 'ControlPersist=yes' '-T' 'anarc.at' 'git-annex-shell ''sendkey'' ''/srv/books'' ''SHA256E-s17781587--f204e6ef1f14b624e222d6ad73ed41edf65c29c93afad9a1e4e1954ad68d1753.pdf'' --uuid a75cbbf7-e055-423e-b375-443e0552c9e2 ''--'' ''remoteuuid=aa500f29-42d9-4777-ae02-4a2c3d47db44'' ''direct='' ''associatedfile=Garde cotiere canadienne/Navigation dans les glaces en eaux Canadiennes (1112)/Navigation dans les glaces en eaux Canadie - Garde cotiere canadienne.pdf'' ''--''' -- dummy: /srv/musique/anarcat/books/.git/annex/tmp/SHA256E-s17781587--f204e6ef1f14b624e222d6ad73ed41edf65c29c93afad9a1e4e1954ad68d1753.pdf
+ 6721 ?        SN     0:00          \_ ssh -S .git/annex/ssh/anarc.at -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=yes -T anarc.at git-annex-shell 'sendkey' '/srv/books' 'SHA256E-s17781587--f204e6ef1f14b624e222d6ad73ed41edf65c29c93afad9a1e4e1954ad68d1753.pdf' --uuid a75cbbf7-e055-423e-b375-443e0552c9e2 '--' 'remoteuuid=aa500f29-42d9-4777-ae02-4a2c3d47db44' 'direct=' 'associatedfile=Garde cotiere canadienne/Navigation dans les glaces en eaux Canadiennes (1112)/Navigation dans les glaces en eaux Canadie - Garde cotiere canadienne.pdf' '--' dummy rsync --server --sender -vpe.Lsf --inplace .
+ 6722 ?        SN     0:00              \_ /usr/bin/ssh-askpass anarcat@anarc.at's password:
+~~~~
+
+Yet I can login to `shell.anarc.at` without a passphrase without problems.
+
+Interestingly enough, my main session and git-annex do not seem to share the same `SSH_AGENT` environment variable. It's unclear to me why. git-annex's SSH_AGENT environment variable seems to refer to a process that disappeared, actually. So it could be there's something wrong with my session.
+
+Still, when a situation like this occurs, it seems to me that it should generate in this noisy concert of ssh prompts that basically blocks all work until i hit "escape" often enough. In fact, that it is rather problematic to have random password prompts show up like this without an explanation: git-annex should tell me it's the source of this password prompt or not prompt at all, because there's no way i'll start entering random passphrases into random pinentry dialogs that show up... 
+
+Doesn't git-annex deploy its own ssh keys once it has established a connexion with an SSH remote?
+
+### What steps will reproduce the problem?
+
+It's unclear - i guess you need to setup git-annex to autostart and sync with remote ssh annexes. You may also need to have to use XFCE with Awesome to reproduce the problem. I can provide more details on my session setup on request. --[[anarcat]]
+
+### What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system?
+
+5.20140927~bpo70+3 on debian wheezy.