This bug/behaviour change has appeared again in Natty. It was working fine on this system (fresh 10.04 install, dist-upgraded to 10.10, where it still worked great, but dist-upgrading to 11.04 alpha 1 broke it and it's been broken ever since.)
$ ls -ld /home/andrew/.ssh drwx------ 2 andrew andrew 4096 2011-02-18 13:13 /home/andrew/.ssh $ ls -l /home/andrew/.ssh/config -rw------- 1 andrew andrew 149 2010-02-21 20:30 /home/andrew/.ssh/config $ cat /home/andrew/.ssh/config IdentityFile ~/.ssh/akohlsmith2.key ForwardAgent yes $ ls -l /home/andrew/.ssh/akohlsmith2.key* -rw------- 1 andrew andrew 736 2009-04-26 08:40 /home/andrew/.ssh/akohlsmith2.key -rw-r--r-- 1 andrew andrew 612 2009-04-26 08:40 /home/andrew/.ssh/akohlsmith2.key.pub If I ssh-add /home/andrew/.ssh/akohlsmith2.key, ssh-agent finds the key just fine. ssh-agent is simply not listening to ~/.ssh/config, which is a new/different behaviour from 10.10. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/375341 Title: ssh-add/ssh-askpass (gnome) not launching graphical prompt on connect -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs