Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 442807
gnome-keyring ignores and prevents use of my already-running ssh-agent
Last modified: 2015-03-03 17:32:27 EST
Description of problem: Before I ran startx, I had a copy of ssh-agent running. When I fire up X, $SSH_AUTH_SOCK points to a gnome-keyring socket inside my X session. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.22.1-1.fc9 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot to runlevel 3. 2. Start up an ssh-agent, add your keys to it, and then run "startx". 3. Try to use the SSH client in a way that will make it try to use your pubkey. Actual results: A dialog box pops up. My agent already had the keys. Expected results: No dialog, it should have just worked.
Related upstream bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=519487
An even closer related upstream bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=519486 This page lists some ways to keep the gnome-keyring ssh-agent from running, e.g gconftool-2 --set -t bool /apps/gnome-keyring/daemon-components/ssh false
Forgotten link: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeKeyring/Ssh
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