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Re: NOT APPROVED: keychain



Am Fr, den 05.08.2005 schrieb Ville Skyttä um 14:32:

> On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 14:56 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> 
> > I noticed a problem with the opt-in mechanism in the keychain package.
> > When a user who has done the opt-in and has such a ssh-agent running
> > runs "sudo -s", a new keychain/ssh-agent appears to be executed as root,
> > but using the original user's keys.  This does not happen if I use the
> > old way of stuffing the commands from the man page to ~/.bash_profile.
> > Plain "su" or "su -" seem to behave as expected, no matter if the
> > ~/.keychainrc or ~/.bash_profile way is being used.
> 
> ...and after reverting back to the ~/.bash_profile way locally, the bad
> interaction on X login is back.  The ssh-agent started by Xsession
> overwrites the env settings of the one started by keychain.  And the
> keys I entered passphrase for during login were added to the agent
> started by keychain.  Sigh.

Thank you for reporting this, Ville. I will into the issue with the
opt-in behaviour and the one with specifics how Fedora's X scripts
(/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc) start the ssh-agent automatically.

Alexander


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