how to stop gnome holding a lock on auth popups

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On 01/18/2009 06:07 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Mail Lists wrote:

>>    Is there a clean way ? Also I did find that one can turn off
>> gnome-keyring from usurping ssh-agent
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> You probably have to do that in addition to changing the askpass agent,
> because gnome-keyring bypasses the askpass system entirely and just prompts
> for it on its own. (I forgot about that one.)
> 

   Probably not actually - there would just be 2 daemons listening on 2
different unix sockets in /tmp/xxx/yyy - they are not binding the same
port or anything.

   I am working on a way to make this work using user-level scripting ..
I will post my solution if it works and if anyone else is interested.

 gene
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