Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-keyring
On previous release ubuntu 8.04/ubuntu 8.10 when using ssh to connect to
remote hosts with ssh private keys from within the gnome environment,
the ssh-askpass (gnome-ssh-askpass renamed) is launched to prompt for
the pass phrase for the keys in
$HOME/$USER/.ssh/{identity,id_dsa,id_rsa} once this pass phrase is input
it is handled by gnome-keyring/ssh-agent for future connects so that no
passphrase is required for any machine using that key.
On a clean install of ubuntu 9.04 the behaviour is different. Upon
connection to an ssh host, ssh-askpass is no longer launched and instead
the ssh terminal application prompts you for the key.
Without the setup of scripts/wrappers, this key must be entered every
time a user wants to connect to a host using that private ssh key.
There are many work arounds for this (using ssh agent, launching ssh-
askpass as a session at login etc) but I believe this is either a bug,
or an expected change in behavior in how gnome is intergrated with ssh.
I have been unable to find any documentation to indicate a change in
behavior in the gnome desktop environment.
I am unsure if this bug request should sit with the gnome-desktop
environment, gnome-keyring or the ssh team, I suspect this is a keyring
intergration issue, but I have been unable to find any
design/documentation on how keyring was working with 8.04/8.10 and ssh.
this problem appears in both 32 and 64bit versions of the 9.04 OS
** Affects: gnome-keyring (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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ssh-add/ssh-askpass (gnome) not launching graphical prompt on connect. ubuntu
9.04
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/375341
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