Re: gnome-keyring gvfsd-sftp without -daemon on OpenBSD

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 18:52 -0600, Stef Walter wrote:

> But IMO that's an aside to the real issue:
> 
> I think the reason gvfs-sftp hard codes a call to GetEnvironment is
> because gvfsd's autostart often gets started before
> gnome-keyring-daemon's autostart. Therefore it won't have the real
> SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment variable needed for openssh to use the
> agent.
> 
> Although gnome-keyring-daemon registers its environment variables with
> org.gnome.SessionManager the gvfsd horse has already left the barn.

Oh, i see. So not autostarting is a bad idea then. The question is then
what to do if SSH_AUTH_SOCK is already set manually, should we assume
the user wants to use that instead of gkr?

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