Bug#473864: gnome-keyring: messes with ssh-agent

Nikolaus Schulz microschulz at web.de
Sun Apr 20 18:00:40 UTC 2008


Hi, 

I don't know what gnome-keyring is, but it pretty much stomps over the
ssh-agent that runs from my ~/.bash_profile.  Usually the following
happens: I'm working in an xterm, with ssh-agent active, which knows
about my keys.  

But when the agent should kick in, instead gnome-keyring pops up, asking
for the password *which my ssh-agent already knows*.  And even better,
I've no way to see which freakin' program is asking, because the dialog
doesn't say anything about it.  So I "deny" access, because I don't want
to tell some random, unexpected and anonymous dialog my secret
passwords; only then ssh-agent kicks in, still doing its job as
expected.

So, me too, I'd really prefer to be warned about such new behaviour, and
have some easily accessible documentation about how to cope with this
beast. 

Nikolaus






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