Doesn't cache keys after `ssh -X`

Bug #596567 reported by Victor Engmark
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seahorse
Invalid
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seahorse (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: seahorse

I've got identical id_rsa and id_rsa.pub files on two computers (both were restarted after installing the certificate). When trying to do something that requires the key on the machine I'm sitting at, I get a pop-up which asks for the password and caches the key afterwards. Then I try to do the same on the other machine, after `ssh -X`, but it keeps asking for the passphrase, and there's no pop-up. Example session:

laptop:~/foo$ git pull
[window pops up, I fill in the passphrase and click OK]
[git pull output]
laptop:~/foo$ cd ~/bar
laptop:~/bar$ git pull
[git pull output]
laptop:~/foo$ ssh -X desktop
desktop:~$ cd foo
desktop:~/foo$ git pull
Enter passphrase for key '/home/jdoe/.ssh/id_rsa':
desktop:~/foo$ cd ~/bar
desktop:~/bar$ git pull
Enter passphrase for key '/home/jdoe/.ssh/id_rsa':

The first time I do `git pull` on desktop, it should pop up a dialog to request the passphrase, and when I do the last `git pull` it shouldn't ask for the passphrase at all.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: seahorse 2.30.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.36-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jun 20 15:37:24 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429.4)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: seahorse

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Victor Engmark (victor-engmark) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

Changed in seahorse (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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Victor Engmark (victor-engmark) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report

Changed in seahorse (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for sending the bug to GNOME

Changed in seahorse:
status: Unknown → New
Changed in seahorse:
importance: Unknown → Critical
status: New → Incomplete
Changed in seahorse:
importance: Critical → Wishlist
Changed in seahorse:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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