Problems with ssh-add
Julian Sikorski
belegdol at gmail.com
Mon Jan 26 08:11:34 UTC 2009
Horst H. von Brand pisze:
> Julian Sikorski <belegdol at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Horst H. von Brand pisze:
>>> Rawhide x86_64 Gnome
>>>
>>> For something like a week now each time I run ssh-add it works fine, but
>>> then trying to use the ssh key ssh complains
>>>
>>> $ ssh quelen.inf.utfsm.cl
>>> Error reading response length from authentication socket.
>>> vonbrand at quelen.inf.utfsm.cl's password:
>>>
>>> After that, ssh just asks for the password, and:
>>>
>>> $ ssh-add
>>> Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.
>>>
>>> I got lost in this whole business of who exactly is the autentication agent
>>> now, so I don't know who to BZ against.
>> Does it happen after you resume from S3?
>
> Only tried to hibernate this machine once by accident. Got a complete hang,
> didn't try again.
>
> And seahorse is running, and doesn't get killed when trying to use ssh once.
I was told in a bug that it is gnome-keyring-daemon that plays the role
of ssh agent, not seahorse.
Also, I meant S4 (hibernate) instead of S3 (suspend), the latter does
not break the agent.
Regards,
Julian
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