as an addition, when I use vinagre, it seems it correctly detects all of my keys and graphically asks for my key passphrase, and remember it across disconnections (It seems the dialog is not ssh-askpass since it offers much more options, including the time the key sould remain unlocked), but event after the key has been unlocked by vinagre, ssh in a shell does not provide the key to the remote host unless I choose it wit ssh -i...
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-keyring in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/375341 Title: ssh-add/ssh-askpass (gnome) not launching graphical prompt on connect Status in “gnome-keyring” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Binary package hint: gnome-keyring On previous release ubuntu 8.04/ubuntu 8.10 when using ssh to connect to remote hosts with ssh private keys from within the gnome environment, the ssh-askpass (gnome-ssh-askpass renamed) is launched to prompt for the pass phrase for the keys in $HOME/$USER/.ssh/{identity,id_dsa,id_rsa} once this pass phrase is input it is handled by gnome-keyring/ssh-agent for future connects so that no passphrase is required for any machine using that key. On a clean install of ubuntu 9.04 the behaviour is different. Upon connection to an ssh host, ssh-askpass is no longer launched and instead the ssh terminal application prompts you for the key. Without the setup of scripts/wrappers, this key must be entered every time a user wants to connect to a host using that private ssh key. There are many work arounds for this (using ssh agent, launching ssh- askpass as a session at login etc) but I believe this is either a bug, or an expected change in behavior in how gnome is intergrated with ssh. I have been unable to find any documentation to indicate a change in behavior in the gnome desktop environment. I am unsure if this bug request should sit with the gnome-desktop environment, gnome-keyring or the ssh team, I suspect this is a keyring intergration issue, but I have been unable to find any design/documentation on how keyring was working with 8.04/8.10 and ssh. this problem appears in both 32 and 64bit versions of the 9.04 OS To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-keyring/+bug/375341/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
