Request for review: keychain
Ville Skyttä
ville.skytta at iki.fi
Wed Jul 13 17:17:25 UTC 2005
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 16:42 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Di, den 12.07.2005 schrieb Ville Skyttä um 18:09:
> > Anyway, I have a local package of this too, here's some cosmetic stuff
> > that mine has but yours doesn't (maybe yet? ;)):
> > - In %prep: sed -i -e 's|/usr/ucb:||' keychain
>
> Do you think this is necessary?
No, I said "cosmetic" :). But it certainly won't hurt either.
> > The reason why I hadn't submitted this package to Extras yet is its
> > annoying interaction with the ssh-agent launched by FC's gdm. I use gdm
> > and KDE, and have this in my ~/.bash_profile:
> >
> > which keychain &>/dev/null && keychain -q id_dsa
> > [[ -f $HOME/.keychain/$HOSTNAME-sh ]] && \
> > source $HOME/.keychain/$HOSTNAME-sh
> >
> > When logging in through gdm, while KDE starts up, I get a ssh-askpass
> > dialog prompting for the passphrase, which is ok. Then, I type the
> > passphrase in, it's accepted and life seems good. But when I start up a
> > Konsole session, ssh'ing somewhere results in the passphrase query. It
> > seems that there are actually two ssh-agents launched, and the
> > passphrases I typed at KDE startup ended up in the "wrong" one. Very
> > annoying, and I haven't found a solution yet. Ideas?
>
> That indicates that testing with a KDE environment is necessary. I only
> run Gnome and never had such an issue with keychain.
I've just tested with GNOME and it exhibits the exact same problem here.
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