Bug 176707 - Integration with ssh-agent
Summary: Integration with ssh-agent
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gdm
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-12-30 13:30 UTC by Alexandre Gomes
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-03-06 19:34:55 UTC
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Description Alexandre Gomes 2005-12-30 13:30:16 UTC
It would be very nice if GDM integrated with ssh-agent when we type our
password. That way we could avoid to open a console to type ssh-add and the
password each time we login.

Comment 1 Valdis Kletnieks 2006-01-16 19:01:28 UTC
Bad idea, security-wise. There's 2 problems here:

1) The user may not *have* an ssh key, or even *want* one.

2) There's very good reasons to have *different* values for the login
password and the ssh key passphrase.

The right answer here is for the user to add it to their .xsession, or if it's
desired behavior for all users, for the site admin to add code to
/etc/X11/gdm/PreSession.

Comment 2 Ray Strode [halfline] 2007-03-06 19:34:55 UTC
GDM isn't really the right component for this.  You'd have to do it with some
sort of new pam module.

Feel free to file a feature request against the pam component, though.


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