Inconsistent agent behaviour with ssh on the desktop

[Eero Aaltonen]

The first thing I usually do after login is that I open a terminal and execute
$ ssh remotehost

Currently about half of time I get the graphical dialog, which will prompt me for my passphrase and store it to the keyring, which is fine.

The other half of the time I instead get prompted in the terminal for my passphrase
    Enter passphrase for key <mykey>

which does not store it to the keyring. I can add my key to the keyring with `ssh-add` but this altering behaviour is weird and inconsistent.

I have two key(pair)s on my computer, in case that's relevant.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: ssh (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-15.25-generic 3.11.10
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-15-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Feb 6 09:50:27 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-09-10 (149 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: openssh
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-23 (105 days ago)

[Seth Arnold (seth-arnold)]

This reminds me of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-keyring/+bug/1271591 -- I'm not confident that it is a duplicate -- but the symptoms feel very similar.

Thanks

[Eero Aaltonen (ejn)]

This indeed appears to be a duplicate of #1271591. I checked the value of SSH_AUTH_SOCK

When prompted in terminal:
$ echo $SSH_AUTH_SOCK
/tmp/ssh-m3uUUZCXI6xj/agent.2567

When prompted by gnome-keyring
~$ echo $SSH_AUTH_SOCK
/run/user/1000/keyring-ABCDef/ssh

[Robie Basak (racb)]

Thanks Eero!