Comment 13 for bug 932177

Adding information posted to opensuse-xfce list on this topic:

Initial post:

Hi,

Just switched to Xfce recently and have run across a couple of things that appear to be start up service related when compared to GNOME.

First, when building a package locally using osc, I end up with an "401 Authentication" error. Pocking around a bit this appears to be gnome-keyring related. However, I have gnome-keyring-daemon running and marked as "autostart". When I used GNOME I didn't do anything special, osc just worked. Anyone has any idea what I need to do to get the keyring usage working again?

Second, also authentication related, I now need to enter my passphrase when using key-authenticated ssh login. I suppose GNOME by default starts an ssh agent thus that the passphrase only gets entered once? How do I accomplish this with Xfce. The "autostratup" has an entry for "SSH Key Agent". What am I missing?

Follow up post:
When I turn on "Launch GNOME services on startup" in the "Advanced" tab of the "Session and Startup" settings I can get the behavior back I am used to in GNOME, i.e. when I ssh to a machine for the first time I get a dialog box that lets me type in my passphrase. Once I do this the key is "unlocked" and I can log into any machine without needing to enter my passphrase again.

However, enabeling this also means that I am running more stuff than I probably want.

I compared the list of processes running with the GNOME services launced and without and compared them. However, nothing sticks out as providing this nice "unlock the key" feature. Thus I am not certain how to enable just that service to allow me to disable the "Launch GNOME services on startup" setting again.

Guido's response:
you shouldn't use that setting, g-k-d is started through the PAM
module so that no additional password needs to be entered to
unlock it. It also needs to be initialized from the session and I
suspect something isn't working right there (either the xdg
autostart or session startup script) but I haven't had the time
to investigate it yet. Feel free to open a bug to track this,
it'll be needed anyway for a SRU.

Karl's response:
Traditionally, I have in my .xinitrc:

eval `ssh-agent -s`
ssh-add ~/.ssh/identity ~/.ssh/id_rsa &

which is ugly, and probably no longer needed, but "works".