ssh private key password

[Jerry Amundson]

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 09:12 -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 07:43:15PM -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>> > 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
>>
>> Sorry for the troll, but I just had to admire this.  One has to love
>> the easy discoverability of GNOME configuration methods... :-)
>
> If you prefer, setting
>
> SSH_AUTH_SOCK=
>
> in your shell works just as well. How is that for discoverability ?

Now my system (new F10 from KDE Live) is *not* popping up the GUI window.
[jerry at jerry-opti755 ~]$ gconftool-2 -g
/apps/gnome-keyring/daemon-components/ssh
true
[jerry at jerry-opti755 ~]$ env | grep SSH
SSH_AGENT_PID=2320
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-bfNSeF2292/agent.2292
SSH_ASKPASS=/usr/libexec/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass

Is this a bug? :-)

wishing I hadn't stated my thoughts in the first place,
jerry