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Hi,

Currently gnome-keyring (if installed) is started in every VM,
providing, among other things, SSH agent. There is no sane way to
disable it for the user[2].

Since the original reason why it is started this way is not true for a
long time, I think about disabling it[1]. The (side?) effect will be - no
longer gnome-keyring working as SSH agent, instead standard ssh-agent
will be pointed by SSH_AUTH_SOCK variable. For some this may be a
feature (as gnome-keyring do not support EC for example), but some may
see this as a bug - no longer keys loaded automatically with a nice GUI
prompt for a password (if set).

It is still possible to enable it back for example by adding it to
`~/.profile`. The tricky part is it can't be started just from
`/etc/xdg/autostart`, because it isn't possible to set $SSH_AUTH_SOCK
in shell environment from there (on real GNOME, some GNOME specific dbus
API is used for this).

So, now the questions:
1. Is this change in behavior ok?
2. If not, how to enable it by default, to make it easier to disable it
if someone want to?

[1] https://github.com/marmarek/qubes-gui-agent-linux/pull/21
[2] https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2351

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Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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