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gnome-keyring package

  1. Bug #377467
  2. Comment #11

Comment 11 for bug 377467

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Forest (foresto) wrote :

Lars, gnome-keyring-daemon does not set SSH_AUTH_SOCK directly. To get it to work, these things have to happen:

1. Run gnome-keyring-daemon --login
This starts the daemon, and is happening automatically on my xubuntu installation.

2. Run gnome-keyring-daemon --start
This loads your ssh keys into the already-running daemon, and prints on standard output the shell commands needed to set SSH_AUTH_SOCK.

3. Execute the shell commands that get printed by that last command in a parent shell whose environment variables will be inherited by the processes in your X session. This is how SSH_AUTH_SOCK actually gets set. It is what Mikel is doing in his workaround described in post #8.

#3 is definitely not happening in my xubuntu installation. I don't think #2 is happening either, because if it was, I would expect SSH_AUTH_SOCK to be pointing at the gnome-keyring socket (it isn't even set) or else to see the commands for setting it in ~/.xsession-errors (which I don't).