On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 09:19:10PM -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >For some time now, snapshots have displayed a bug wrt gnome-keyring, >namely that passwords don't "register" when entered. This wreaks >havoc on the GNOME desktop where so many programs rely on >gnome-keyring. > >This is easy to reproduce, but requires xorg-server, dbus, >gnome-keyring, and openssh. At a new terminal: > >$ XWin -multiwindow &>/dev/null & >$ export DISPLAY=:0 >$ eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax` >$ export `gnome-keyring-daemon --start --components=ssh` >$ ssh USER@HOSTNAME >(Enter password for ssh key in GUI prompt) > >What should happen (and does with 1.7.9) is a successful login. WIth >the 20111129 snapshot, the following message is displayed on the >terminal: > >Agent admitted failure to sign using the key. > >(which AFAIK comes from ssh) and the gnome-keyring prompt asks for the >password to the next private key listed in ~/.ssh/config (even if its >the wrong key for HOSTNAME). Subsequent logins do succeed, however. >This does not occur with ssh-agent(1). > >Frankly, I'm a little baffled by this one, but a non-working GNOME >desktop is really keeping me from testing the snapshots for any length >of time.
I'm looking at this now. FYI. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
