Description of problem: ssh-add -c should, according to the man page, require confirmation before using the cached key. This works in RHEL5, but not in rawhide. Unfortunately, I am not in a position where I'm able to test anything in between RHEL5 and current rawhide. When you attempt to use -c, you get a warning, shown below. user@boxname ~ $ ssh-add -c Enter passphrase for /home/user/.ssh/id_rsa: SSH_AGENT_FAILURE Identity added: /home/user/.ssh/id_rsa (/home/user/.ssh/id_rsa) Then when using the ssh key by, for instance, sshing to a machine, no confirmation is shown, and the key is used anyway. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): openssh-5.2p1-2.fc11.x86_64 openssh-askpass-5.2p1-2.fc11.x86_64 openssh-clients-5.2p1-2.fc11.x86_64
Note that the rawhide does not use the ssh-agent from the openssh package by default but it uses gnome-keyring daemon instead of it.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle. Changing version to '11'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Reported upstream in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=525574
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This is still a problem in 13...
Oh, I was so hoping this bug would explain everything. I would really like to know what is the status with this whole issue. I've been waiting for gnome-keyring-daemon to start honoring these constraints is some way (from ssh-add). It seems like this would just fix everything. Isn't this going to be implemented? Or, seahrose needs to allow these constraints to be placed on keys (individually). That would work too, but that amounts the the same thing, right? And/Or, some reliable way to remove gnome-keyring-daemon needs to be documented. I've tried to disable the ssh support in gnome several different ways and none of them work; it's still the agent for all my ssh stuff. I don't think it's reasonable to have to uninstall core packages or fiddle with pam just to get the correct behavior (which was working fine before gnome-keyring took over ssh-agent duties). Regardless, it would be greatly appreciated if someone would just explain what's going on and what is the long-term plan to address this issue. Also, this is an on-going issue, and this bug affects Fedora 14. At the very least, that should be updated in this bug so it doesn't get closed.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle. Changing version to '19'. (As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 19 development cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 19 End Of Life. Thank you.) More information and reason for this action is here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora19
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database. Reassigning to the new owner of this component.
This is IMHO a security issue and should get a CVE.
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gnome-keyring recognizes this now: $ ssh-add Could not add identity "/home/fweimer/.ssh/id_rsa": communication with agent failed Apr 23 19:43:46 oldenburg.str.redhat.com gnome-keyring-daemon[4360]: prompt constraints are not supported.