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lumeno

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Registered: 2014-04-21

Posts: 20

gnome-keyring replacement for i3 + ssh-agent

I just switched from gnome/gdm to i3. I have a dozen ssh keys for various systems. I used to let gnome-keyring manage agent forwarding and ssh passphrases. Presumably, once I logged in, all the keys would be added to the keyring without me having to enter the passphrase for each.

With i3, I use keychain to get halfway there. Now, for each reboot I only need to enter each passphrase once for every session I open. But that's not enough. I don't want to enter a dozen passphrases every time I reboot. I'd like them all to be unlocked with my user login at reboot. How can I achieve this?

EDIT:

I'm now just using gnome-keyring with i3 (by executing it from .xinitrc). However this doesn't unlock my "Login" saved passwords on login automatically. How can I do that?

Last edited by lumeno (2017-04-08 18:01:35)

bmansurov

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Registered: 2016-09-25

Posts: 10

Re: gnome-keyring replacement for i3 + ssh-agent

Don't you have to have the same password for the "Login" saved password as the one you log in with.

Raynman

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Registered: 2011-10-22

Posts: 1,539

Re: gnome-keyring replacement for i3 + ssh-agent

And use the PAM module, but this is all covered in the wiki.