Package: gnome-keyring Version: 2.22.0-2 Severity: normal Josh Triplett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> gnome-keyring apparently supports SSH agent functionality now. While > a somewhat interesting feature, it managed to break my working > libpam-ssh setup, which has the advantage of working in sessions that > don't involve logging into GNOME. I just spent the last few hours trying to figure out why ssh-add suddenly started spitting out SSH_AGENT_FAILURE. As it turns out, I can still use ssh without a password, but now I'm concerned. What is this gnome-keyring? Does it supersede ssh-agent? If so and because it seems to have more functionality than ssh-agent, where can I learn more about it? Are my passwords kept on disk anywhere? If so, how are they encrypted? Do I still use ssh-add or use those pop-ups that I've seen? I use expiration times with ssh-add--are those supported? I logged out of my GNOME session and logged back in and my password was still cached! I don't like that at all. > It also created ~/.ssh/*.keystore > files for my private keys. Please add a NEWS.Debian item telling > people about this change, and please document how to disable it (set > the gconf key /apps/gnome-keyring/daemon-components/ssh to false). I agree. Thanks for the tip about the gconf key. In addition, I would love to hear answers to my questions above and I'd suggest that those answers be captured in a README.Debian file as well. Because of the impact that this change has, I'd also suggest adding modifying the preinst script to display a dialog with the content of NEWS.Debian with a pointer to the README.Debian file. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (80, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages gnome-keyring depends on: ii gconf2 2.22.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste ii libatk1.0-0 1.20.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.4.14-1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libdbus-1-3 1.1.20-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libgconf2-4 2.22.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste ii libgcrypt11 1.4.0-3 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.1-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.9-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libhal-storage1 0.5.11~rc2-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libhal1 0.5.11~rc2-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libpango1.0-0 1.20.0-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libtasn1-3 1.3-1 Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime) Versions of packages gnome-keyring recommends: ii libpam-gnome-keyring 2.22.0-2 PAM module to unlock the GNOME key -- no debconf information -- Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]