Alexandre Vassalotti <alexandre <at> peadrop.com> writes: > > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Vinay Sajip wrote: > > I've installed Keychain and invoked it in my .bashrc, and whenever I open a > > terminal session, it tells me that it found an existing ssh-agent and the > > SSH_AUTH_SOCK and SSH_AGENT_PID seem to be correct. > > Are you using Ubuntu? If so, Seahorse (the default key manager in > Ubuntu) should prompt you automatically for your passphrase and cache > it. Keychain might be interfering with it, so try to uninstall it > first. Then verify in Applications → Accessories → Passwords and > Encryption Keys that Seahorse sees your SSH key. > > I hope that helps, >
Alexandre, Thanks for the response. Yes, I'm on Ubuntu Jaunty, and at least part of the problem seems to be that Seahorse can't import a key originally generated by PuTTYgen. There's a bug in Ubuntu about it: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/seahorse/+bug/252288 which was posted upstream to Gnome as http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=551016 but marked as wontfix there because a Seahorse developer said "I believe importing of SSH keys is possible now." Well, I wouldn't agree with that :-( In any case, isn't the remembering of passphrases ssh-agent's job? I uninstalled Keychain, rebooted and logged in. I've verified that ssh-agent is running, and explicitly added the key using ssh-add. It still prompts for a passhprase when I wouldn't expect it to: vi...@eta-jaunty:~$ ssh-add -l 2048 [fingerprint removed] vi...@eta-jaunty (RSA) vi...@eta-jaunty:~$ ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa Enter passphrase for /home/vinay/.ssh/id_rsa: Identity added: /home/vinay/.ssh/id_rsa (/home/vinay/.ssh/id_rsa) vi...@eta-jaunty:~$ ssh-add -l 2048 [fingerprint removed] vi...@eta-jaunty (RSA) 1023 [fingerprint removed] /home/vinay/.ssh/id_rsa (RSA) vi...@eta-jaunty:~$ cd projects/python vi...@eta-jaunty:~/projects/python$ svn up Enter passphrase for key '/home/vinay/.ssh/id_rsa': At revision 78645. vi...@eta-jaunty:~/projects/python$ The initial "vi...@eta-jaunty" key is an SSH key I created for use with Launchpad, using Seahorse, and it shows this key in its UI - but not the PuTTYgen-created key. Regards, Vinay Sajip _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers
