Terminator not setting $SSH_AUTH_SOCK correctly

[Jonas G. Drange]

$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=16.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=yakkety
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu Yakkety Yak (development branch)"

Reproduce:
Open Terminator
Connect to a host which an agent will provide an ssh key for authentication.

What happens:
I'm asked to unlock key

What should happen:
There's an SSH agent running, I should connect and authenticate immediately.

Fix:
$ export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/run/user/1001/keyring/ssh

Reason for this bug is that: before yakkety, this used to work just fine. And for gnome-terminal, this never broke. There are no special scripts in gnome-terminal.

[Stephen Boddy (stephen-j-boddy)]

It is *not* the responsibility of Terminator to set SSH_AUTH_SOCK. This is something that gets configured in your bash startup scripts or is inherited from the environment.

You don't mention which version of Terminator you were using, but I just checked on my Xenial with the latest gtk3 code, and I'm seeing SSH_AUTH_SOCK passed to both gnome-terminal and terminator. If something is different in Yakkety then it is not terminator that has changed.

[Scarabol (scarabol)]

I experienced the same "issue".

In terminator I get:
$ echo $SSH_AUTH_SOCK
/tmp/ssh-RAZK2RZn9Ti6/agent.1513
and with the default terminal app, I get:
$ echo $SSH_AUTH_SOCK
/run/user/1000/keyring/ssh

I'm using linux mint.

Where do I find the terminator version?
dpkg -s shows
Package: terminator
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: misc
Installed-Size: 1998
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Architecture: all
Version: 0.98-1
Provides: x-terminal-emulator
Depends: gconf2, python-dbus, python-gobject, python-gtk2 (>= 2.14.0), python-vte, python:any (>= 2.7.5-5~)
Recommends: python-gnome2, python-keybinder, python-notify, xdg-utils
Description: multiple GNOME terminals in one window
 Terminator is a little project to produce an efficient way of
 filling a large area of screen space with terminals.
 .
 The user can have multiple terminals in one window and use
 key bindings to switch between them. See the manpage for
 details.
Original-Maintainer: Nicolas Valcárcel Scerpella <email address hidden>
Homepage: http://gnometerminator.blogspot.com/p/introduction.html