On Sat, Sep 27, 2025 at 12:12:27PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 26/09/2025 02:59, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > > > I am no longer presented with > > a graphical interface to enter my ssh key passphrase to add it to the > > session keyring. > > I can say nothing related to XFCE. In my notes I have a mention of > gnome-keyring-daemon for GNOME session on Ubuntu and it was 5 years ago. The > related setting was "SSH Key Agent" in gnome-session-properties.
Dear Max, Thanks! I can't see anything like that in Xfce4, though, unfortunately. > > I do have the session > > manually running ssh-add in a terminal works, > > Do you get a GUI prompt in response to the following command? > > ssh-add </dev/null > > (when no keys are loaded) Good idea! I get the same graphical prompt I used to when I have ssh-askpass-gnome installed, but no graphical prompt when I don't have the redirect. (This also means that running "ssh ..." requires a passphrase every time until I separately run "ssh-add".) I upgraded openssh-client from 1:10.0p1-7 -> 1:10.0p1-8 on August 31, so this could be related perhaps. > > xfce4-session-Message: 18:07:24.229: GNOME compatibility is enabled and > > gnome-keyring-daemon is found on the system. Skipping gpg/ssh-agent startup. > > > > Switching off GNOME compatibility didn't help, and my backups show > > that this message appeared in .xsession-errors even before the > > upgrade, so there's no change here. > > My experience is that gpg-agent from openssh-client prefers to ask pass > phrase in the current terminal window and some other agent should be running > to provide GUI prompt. Interesting. But the change for me happened only within the last month. > > I'm stumped. Could anyone suggest where to look to find the cause of > > this changed behaviour? > > There is a number of ssh-agent implementations and they may be started in > various ways (Xsession, systemd user session, maybe with socket activation). > > I would start from inspecting what variant provides agent socket in your > case. Check environment variables and process tree. Examples of threads with > earlier discussions of ssh-agents: The running agents (according to systemctl) are: systemd-tty-ask-password-agent --wall /usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/bin/im-launch startxfce4 /usr/bin/gpg-agent --supervised Nothing else is shown in the process tree either. Ho hum! Best wishes, Julian
