Re: Problem with multiple sessions ans Seahorse

[Nicholas Brown <nickbroon blueyonder co uk>]

On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:33:05 +0200, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote:
> Le jeudi 04 octobre 2007 à 09:33 -0400, Adam Schreiber a écrit :
> > On 10/4/07, Adam Kłobukowski <adamklobukowski gmail com> wrote:
> > > I start Gnome session on my computer locally, and leave it be.
> > > Then I open another session with the same user, but using NX, over a
> > > network (full Gnome session).
> > >
> > > Then I try to sign email in Thuderbird in NX session, I get message that
> > > 'gpg-agent is not available in this session'.
> > >
> > > Btw. it seems to work OK if I do not open full session with NX, but just
> > > one-application-session.
> > >
> > > How can I solve it?
> > 
> > I'm not sure that there is an immediate solution.  The real solution
> > might be to write out our environment variables to a file akin to [1].
> > 
> Just to confirm that with the appropriate shell scripting, you can get
> something like this working at least for ssh agent.
> 
> My current setup is to start keychain in .bashrc with proper parameters
> to detect seahorse-agent. Keychain finds it and writes a file in
> ~/.keychain that you can source for shells not launched in from the
> desktop (for example an ssh connection from work).
> 
> I have yet to test it for gpg keys but I believe it's doable. I think
> it's a corner case though since gnome generally doesn't like very much
> being logged in multiple times.

There is a bug report against keychain to add gpg-agent/seahorse support to it;
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134984#c6

This is useful not just in the remote case, but also on systems were keychain
is started at login and used to startup the various agents.

Cheers,
Nick