Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 446963
seahorse-agent under kdm doesn't start gnome-keyring/ssh-agent
Last modified: 2009-07-14 12:28:57 EDT
Description of problem: I'm not sure if this is a seahorse issue, a gnome-keyring issue or a kdm/kde-settings issue; please re-file as appropriate. I'm trying to get a working keyring setup for KDE so that my NetworkManager and SSH all have that rich user experience that we all crave. A lot of this is related to BUG427466. Given that we can't get away from seahorse and gnome-keyring on KDE (what with the GPG and NetworkManager tie-ins) it would be reasonable here to request that seahorse and gnome-keyring-daemon startup scripts be tweaked a bit to work with kdm: * xinit scripts currently start ssh-agent very late in the login process. This is too late for seahorse-agent, as it needs to have a working SSH_AUTH_SOCK when it starts up. * kdm startup scripts *do* start gpg-agent, which may or may not include ssh-agent support. This happens after seahorse-agent has started, which is too late. * xinit doesn't explicitly start gnome-keyring-daemon. gdm (and some gnome applications) do this as a side-effect, but kdm does not. Ideally we would want gnome-keyring-daemon to start very early on in the xinit process to provide SSH support for seahorse-agent. * If KDE starts up with seahorse-agent installed, it appears that one of the gnome applications (possibly seahorse-agent itself) automatically starts gnome-keyring-daemon, but with the wrong arguments: it uses an explicit '--components' switch that disables SSH integration. The workaround for this appears to be to start gnome-keyring-daemon explicitly in xinitrc.d (before seahorse-agent of course). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kdebase-workspace-4.0.3-20.fc9.x86_64 kde-settings-4.0-22.fc9.1.noarch gnome-keyring-2.22.1-1.fc9.x86_64 seahorse-2.22.1-1.fc9.x86_64 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install seahorse-agent 2. Login using a KDE desktop 3. Grovel around to see what's running (ssh-agent, gpg-agent, seahorse-agent, gnome-keyring-daemon) 4. Grovel around the login environment to see what sockets are defined (SSH_AUTH_SOCK, GPG_AGENT_INFO). Actual results: Usually I end up with extra copies of ssh-agent and gpg-agent running. Expected results: We currently have four keyring utilities at play here (I'm not including kwallet here but it would be nice if it was on the list too). What we should see on a running KDE desktop is: * SSH_AUTH_SOCK provided by (in order of preference): gnome-keyring-daemon, gpg-agent, ssh-agent * GPG_AGENT_INFO provided by (in order of preference) seahorse-agent, gpg-agent * ssh-agent and gnome-keyring-daemon should not be both running * gpg-agent and seahorse-agent should not be both running Additional info: I am able to get this to work by suitable tampering of scripts in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d, /etc/kde/env, /etc/kde/shutdown. I can provide examples if necessary. It's all very fragile and it would be better if these half-solutions could be pushed upstream.
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