[1394] in athena10
Re: Disabling GNOME keyring prompt on SSH
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Sun Mar 8 12:35:49 2009
Cc: debathena@mit.edu
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0903080824390.6057@geminorum.mit.edu>
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Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 12:34:48 -0400
On Mar 8, 2009, at 8:32 AM, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
> If you try to use SSH on cluster machines, it's the case for many
> users [*] that you get an annoying popup asking you to unlock your
> keyring (which was created for some other purpose, probably with an
> old Kerberos password, and doesn't include any SSH keys). According
> to http://live.gnome.org/GnomeKeyring/Ssh , you can disable the
> prompt by setting the gconf key /apps/gnome-keyring/daemon-
> components/ssh to false. This may affect people who do want to use
> an SSH agent, though.
If we can figure out the conditions that cause this behavior,
documenting it is also an option. We currently have documentation for
"This thing is asking for a password and I don't know what it
is" (c.f. Firefox), so that's certainly an option. It sounds like it
affects a small portion of users anyway...
Although I guess I'm not opposed to defaulting the gconf key to
"false" and letting users override it if they want (and documenting
how to do that and its implications).
-Jon
