At Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:29:02 +0100 (BST), MJ Ray wrote:
Richard Lewis wrote:
MJ Ray wrote:
I've seen some muttering about the Gnome keyring tool (on planet.debian.org I think) and it's never worked right for me. It also seemed to interfere with ssh-agent. Is it running?
Hmm, yes gnome keyring is running. I think gdm uses it?
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeKeyring/Ssh seems to suggest that gnome keyring actually functions as an ssh agent.
That's the swine! So I found the muttering comment:-
wouter verhelst wrote on 06/18/09 at 12:02 pm :
You seem to be confusing "ssh-agent" with "gnome-keyring" The former is a proper implementation of ssh-agent that does everything the protocol requires, and works well. The latter is a cheap knockoff of ssh-agent implemented by the GNOME people. It does not implement half of the features of ssh-agent (for instance, it does not support ssh-add's -c or -t options), breaks on keys that have passwords in them, and is a generally shoddy implementation of ssh-agent. To make matters worse, the gconf key that is supposed to disable the ssh-agent component of gnome-keyring has no effect in its most recent versions.http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=347
There are some more constructive comments there which may help.
Hope that helps,
So I've just switched my computer back on again and gnome-keyring seems amenable to ssh-add'ing and I've now got passwordless ssh.
Thanks for your help.