ssh private key password

[Matthias Clasen]

On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 23:42 +0100, nodata wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 08.01.2009, 17:21 -0500 schrieb Ricky Zhou:
> > On 2009-01-08 11:02:14 PM, nodata wrote:
> > > I'm wondering when this changed (F10)? I'm sure it didn't act like this
> > > in F9.
> > > 
> > > In F9, I would only be prompted to enter my passphrase if I sshed to a
> > > box that accepted pubkey authentication and a ssh-agent did not already
> > > have the key.
> > > In F10 it asks earlier: when ssh-add is run.
> > When you run ssh-add, you are *asking* for the passphrase to be stored
> > with ssh-agent, so of course, it has to ask for your passphrase.  This
> > is the very purpose of ssh-add.  Could you be confusing ssh-add with
> > something else?
> 
> No, I'm just getting annoyed that a GUI is popping up when I am using a
> command line app. Not sure of the point of it, it seems counter
> intuitive.

If you don't want this, you can turn it off with
gconftool-2 -s -t bool /apps/gnome-keyting/daemon-components/ssh false