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#1 2015-05-27 08:36:35

kaouete
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Registered: 2008-12-22
Posts: 40

Gnome 3.16 and gnome-keyring: ssh agent not working anymore

Hi,

This problem is reported on the archlinux bug tracker but since there hasn't been any update about it for more than one month, I was wondering if people around here had solution, even temporary, to this problem.
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/44583

Since gnome 3.16, gnome-keyring is not used as the ssh agent anymore, but ssh-agent (from openssh) is instead.
It seems to be executed at session start, but the environment variables are not used (SSH_AGENT_PID  and SSH_AUTH_SOCK ): they still point to ssh-agent's informations.

Then, seahorse set the SSH_ASKPASS variable as it should, but ssh does not use it: it insists on prompting for the password on the console…

In the past (was it gnome 3.14?), I had a similar problem, which is  there I think: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 8#p1519688
But it is different because this second problem was caused by the starting order: by disabling the starting of ssh-agent, it was enough to fix the problem!
This is not the case anymore :(

Thanks!

Victor

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