Just sharing something that happened to me. After a recent upgrade with debian/testing, I noticed that ssh would pop up a window asking for my password, and this would be AFTER running ssh-add.
Turns out that I needed to read this bit in /usr/share/doc/gnome-keyring/README.Debian: """ The GNOME keyring includes the functionality of the SSH and GPG agents, and it can break some setups, especially if ssh-agent and/or gpg-agent is started by hand. You can disable a specific component by removing the gnome-keyring-gpg and gnome-keyring-ssh elements from the startup applications. The interface depends on your session manager; for GNOME you can use gnome-session-properties. You can also simply edit /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-keyring-*.desktop. """ Now for me, surprise GUI prompts are annoying for a couple of reasons. First, it's new. I've never seen that before this recent upgrade. Second, I usually run screen, and it's possible the that first time I run ssh out of this machine would have been after I first ssh-ed into it, did screen -x, then ssh back out. So there'd be some random X app prompting for my password on a machine several buildings away. Anyway, from my GNOME desktop, it was simply System/Preferences/Startup Applications and uncheck GNOME Keyring SSH Agent Cheers, mrc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/BANLkTikpaBSntxKFmtBp=hspxitou35...@mail.gmail.com
