Re: gnome-keyring ssh-askpass functionality ?

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 11:57 PM, Adam Schreiber <sadam clemson edu> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 10:57 PM, Matthias Clasen
> <matthias clasen gmail com> wrote:
>> I remember that earlier, something (gnome-keyring, I believe) used to
>> provide a nice dialog for entering and remembering ssh passphrases.
>>
>> With 2.23.x, I can't seem to find that functionality anymore in
>> gnome-keyring/seahorse/seahorse-plugins. The seahorse-agent man page
>> talks about it working with ssh-agent to prompt for passphrases, but I
>> can't find any trace of that in the code...
>
> That should still be there but I imagine it's been wrapped up into the
> gkr-ask-tool.  Stef would know for sure.

I've figured it out now. Our Xsession script was getting confused by
the arguments passed from the new gdm, and started the session inside
an ssh-agent, which got in the way of gnome-keyring-daemon doing the
ssh prompt thing....


Thanks, Matthias