Ok, it seems I misunderstood the gnome-keyring-daemon startup procedure. Apparently --daemonize --login spawns kind of an empty shell for the functionality (accepting the password through PAM) but does not actually initialize any functionality. For that additional calls the gnome- keyring-daemon with the options --start --components=… (listing the desired component or components) are necessary. As such the PAM module call is actually correct and the fault for gnome-keyring-daemon uncontrollably taking over GPG functions lies elsewhere. (It's just rather confusing because the later calls to --start --components don't leave any traces and looking at the running process list will only show one gnome-keyring-daemon process with --daemonize --login.)
In theory, and apparently in some practical cases as evidenced by comment 4 and some other hints on the web, the modules should be started by the session and selectable in gnome-session-properties. However, that doesn't seem to be the case, for Oneiric at least: I tried creating a new user account on my system, and tried a friend's installation (to exclude the possibility of something being wrong with my installation): There is no entry for any gnome-keyring-daemon module in the startup programs list. Instead, there are multiple /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-keyring-….desktop files, one each for gpg, secrets, pkcs11 and ssh with no obvious UI to disable any of them. WORKAROUND: Removing the /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-keyring-gpg.desktop file releases (after logging out and in again) gnome-keyring-daemon's grip over the GPG agent functionality and lets gpg and gpgsm work normally again. -- Steps to reproduce -- 1. On a normal Ubuntu Oneiric installation log in normally. 2. Open a Terminal 3. echo $GPG_AGENT_INFO -- Actual results -- /tmp/keyring-<some random string>/gpg:0:1 -- Expected results (and actual results after applying workaround) -- /tmp/gpg-<random string>/S.gpg-agent:<random number>:1 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/884856 Title: gnome-keyring integration breaks some GPG functions To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-keyring/+bug/884856/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
