I have a very similar experience on Ubuntu MATE 18.04. /run/user/1000/keyring/ssh is opened by gnome-keyring-daemon /run/user/1000/keyring/.ssh is opened by /usr/bin/ssh-agent $SSH_AUTH_SOCK points to /run/user/1000/keyring/ssh
When I try to open an SSH session to another machine it hangs just after "SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received" Changing $SSH_AUTH_SOCK to point to /run/user/1000/keyring/.ssh allows the SSH to complete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-keyring in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1586835 Title: ssh-agent fighting gnome-keyring on Ubuntu Gnome 16.04 Status in gnome-keyring package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Sometimes I open a terminal and try to login to a remote server, just to be greeted by a command-line-based prompt asking for my password. Whenever that happens, it is ssh-agent instead of gnome-keyring that is providing the SSH agent capabilities: $ echo $SSH_AUTH_SOCK /tmp/ssh-qeG7CTbx4w7D/agent.4592 $ ps -p 4592 -f UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD xeno 4592 4576 0 20:53 tty3 00:00:00 /usr/lib/gnome-session/gnome-session-binary --session=gnome $ ps -p $SSH_AGENT_PID -f UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD xeno 4652 4592 0 20:53 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/bin/im-launch gnome-session --session=gnome I usually close the GNOME Terminal and open a new one (sometimes I must do this more than once), and I eventually get the expected output: $ echo $SSH_AUTH_SOCK /run/user/1000/keyring/ssh $ ps -p $SSH_AGENT_PID -f UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD xeno 4652 4592 0 20:53 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/bin/im-launch gnome-session --session=gnome Interestingly, the $SSH_AGENT_PID variable seems to continue pointing to the process where ssh-agent is running. Generally once I get the keyring socket in the $SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment variable, it will stay that way even when I close the terminal and launch a new one. This seems to be a weird conflict between two programs offering the ssh-agent service. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-keyring/+bug/1586835/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
