On 29/09/2025 11:30, Max Nikulin wrote:
On 28/09/2025 21:21, Julian Gilbey wrote:
On Sat, Sep 27, 2025 at 12:12:27PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
In my notes I have a mention of
gnome-keyring-daemon for GNOME session on Ubuntu and it was 5 years
ago. The
related setting was "SSH Key Agent" in gnome-session-properties.
Thanks! I can't see anything like that in Xfce4, though,
unfortunately.
Finally I tried a VM with Debian 12 bookworm XFCE that I have. I see the
following file /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-keyring-ssh.desktop, so gnome-
keyring-daemon is installed by default.
Actually that autostart files are (intentionally) ignored by XFCE.
gnome-keyring is started by systemd *without* its ssh component.
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/run/user/1000/keyring/ssh ssh HOST
and I got a GUI prompt. I have no idea it is one that you expect. I do
not have ssh-askpass installed in this VM.
The reason why I got a GUI prompt is that I executed a command from the
.desktop file earlier
/usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --start --components=ssh
So I have no idea what way GUI prompt was configured on Julian's machine
earlier.
However in the gnome-keyring changelog I noticed the following entry:
gnome-keyring (48.0-2) experimental; urgency=medium
* Team upload
* Stop building gnome-keyring ssh-agent in favour of gcr4 ssh-agent
-- Alessandro Astone <[email protected]> Sun, 27 Jul 2025
16:56:56 +0200
I can not tell you what gcr expect from DE to display GUI prompt.
Perhaps I am wrong, but my impression is that switching to gcr caused
full screen modal window to ask pass phrase in GNOME or Unity session
several years ago.
In bookworm gcr and gnome-keyring may be used as ssh-agents in addition
to gpg and the implementation from openssh (the latter as a part of X11
or systemd session). Not to mention e.g. keepassxc.
