No joy with the mod of /etc/rc.local nor ~/.profile. I did run across the link below, but it seems a bit much to install systemd solely for the sake of getting ssh-agent to work? Howto auto-start ssh-agent on Debian Bullseye Hopefully somebody has an idea???by jiggins - Debian
Hi, First: thank you for making this change easy. I too had been eyeing the change to Debian for years and inertia (let's call it what it is: laziness) meant it just never happened. Until now. The 2 issues I've experienced might be nice to have in this one place for others making the change: 1)USB3 is borked on the newest kernel (as noted elsewhere, with workaround, thank youby jiggins - Debian