** Also affects: lubuntu-default-settings (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/664206
Title:
SSH_AUTH_SOCK not being properly set: user has to type password even
if saved in the password manager
Status in GNOME keyring services:
Unknown
Status in “gdm” package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in “gnome-keyring” package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in “lubuntu-default-settings” package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in “lxde-common” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in “lxdm” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Binary package hint: lxde-common
SSH_AUTH_SOCK is not being properly set. (Or it is pointing to a sock
that doesn't accomplish its job.)
Expected behavior:
You run "ssh [email protected]" and the password manager opens a GUI to ask
for the passphrase. Once unlocked, it remains unlocked until you log off.
Moreover, at that moment of unlocking you can tell it to remember the
passphrase forever so it gets automatically unlocked next time you login. Any
other application that uses ssh-like connections will find this key unlocked as
well.
Observed behavior:
You run "ssh [email protected]" and it prompts you for the key passphrase
in the terminal. You run it again, you are prompted again. Any other
application that uses ssh-like connections will result in a passphrase prompt
as well.
How to reproduce:
Enter Lubuntu session
Open Passwords and Encryption Keys
Create a Secure Shell key
Configure this key to some domain you can ssh to
Open a terminal and run ssh [email protected]
You are promted for a password in the terminal interface.
Partial workaround:
Here is a partial workaround for a terminal session: export
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=`echo /tmp/keyring*/ssh` after the keyring-daemon has been loaded.
But it only works within the same terminal session, not for other
applications that launch ssh-like processes.
Disclaim: it works for Lubuntu session inside a Ubuntu 10.04 install, with
GDM as session manager.
$ printenv SSH_AUTH_SOCK
/tmp/ssh-PZgdl10603/agent.10603
$ ssh mydomain
Enter passphrase for key '/home/leorolla/.ssh/id_rsa': [pressed ^C]
$ export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=`echo /tmp/keyring*/ssh`
$ printenv SSH_AUTH_SOCK
/tmp/keyring-k3BQQd/ssh
$ ssh mydomain
Last login: Wed Oct 20 19:58:06 2010 from ....
Your default printer is ....
mydomain:leorolla> [blinking cursor!]
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