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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