What's up with ssh key access?

[Nalin Dahyabhai]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 05:26:53PM -0400, Joe Smith wrote:
> I had some ssh keys set up in my F8 home directory (i.e. ~/.ssh/*).
>
> When I installed F9 on a new box, I just restored all my files by copying 
> from my old drive using "find | cpio".
>
> Now, when I try to use rsync over an ssh connection (from a terminal), I 
> get a GUI dialog titled "Unlock private key" asking for a "password to 
> unlock the private key".
>
> Entering my user password and clicking "OK" seems to have no effect; 
> entering nothing and clicking "Deny" twice will eventually allow the rsync 
> to complete.
>
> May I humbly ask: WTF?

I'm pretty sure that's gnome-keyring presenting the dialog.  Just to be
sure, the password you gave it was the passphrase for your SSH key?  It
works when I give it mine, though I'm not sure I'm happy about the key
being added to the keyring automatically when I do that.

HTH,

Nalin