Ubuntu
openssh package

ssh-agent upstart script should not run when gpg-agent is used

Bug #1257707 reported by Guillaume Martres
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
openssh (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Medium
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Bug Description

As mentioned in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openssh/+bug/1244736 the ssh-agent upstart script does not check if an ssh-agent instance is already running. This is bad, but fixing this bug does not prevent ssh-agent to be launched when gpg-agent is also used. The gpg-agent upstart script test whether gpg-agent is used or not using the following line:
    grep -qs '^[[:space:]]*use-agent' "$GNUPGHOME/gpg.conf" "$GNUPGHOME/options" || { stop; exit 0; }
This should be used to decide whether or not to run ssh-agent.
(Note that the gpg-agent upstart script does not work properly currently because of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnupg2/+bug/1257706 )

Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)
Changed in openssh (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in openssh (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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