Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-keyring
This is a duplicate bug for bug #375341 which was 9.04 specific.
This bug is now relevant to 9.10. Exactly the same hardware and conditions.
SUMMARY
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 and 9.10 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 and 9.10
distributions.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jan 6 19:25:42 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
Package: gnome-keyring 2.28.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.53-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-keyring
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic x86_64
** Affects: gnome-keyring (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug
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ssh-add/ssh-askpass (gnome) not launching graphical prompt on connect.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/503938
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