Request for review: keychain

[Ville Skyttä]

On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 16:42 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Di, den 12.07.2005 schrieb Ville Skyttä um 18:09:

> > Anyway, I have a local package of this too, here's some cosmetic stuff
> > that mine has but yours doesn't (maybe yet? ;)):
> > - In %prep: sed -i -e 's|/usr/ucb:||' keychain
> 
> Do you think this is necessary?

No, I said "cosmetic" :).  But it certainly won't hurt either.

> > The reason why I hadn't submitted this package to Extras yet is its
> > annoying interaction with the ssh-agent launched by FC's gdm.  I use gdm
> > and KDE, and have this in my ~/.bash_profile:
> > 
> >   which keychain &>/dev/null && keychain -q id_dsa
> >   [[ -f $HOME/.keychain/$HOSTNAME-sh ]] && \
> >     source $HOME/.keychain/$HOSTNAME-sh
> > 
> > When logging in through gdm, while KDE starts up, I get a ssh-askpass
> > dialog prompting for the passphrase, which is ok.  Then, I type the
> > passphrase in, it's accepted and life seems good.  But when I start up a
> > Konsole session, ssh'ing somewhere results in the passphrase query.  It
> > seems that there are actually two ssh-agents launched, and the
> > passphrases I typed at KDE startup ended up in the "wrong" one.  Very
> > annoying, and I haven't found a solution yet.  Ideas?
> 
> That indicates that testing with a KDE environment is necessary. I only
> run Gnome and never had such an issue with keychain.

I've just tested with GNOME and it exhibits the exact same problem here.