SSH to GNOME keyring

[Stephen]

Maybe get creative with th sudoers and groups, only half breaking things?

On 12/10/08, der.hans <PLUGd at lufthans.com> wrote:
> moin moin,
>
> after and upgrade to Intrepid, SSH ( run from a shell in screen ) is
> popping up a gnome-keyring GUI asking for the password to unlock a private
> key.
>
> This is essentially a DoS in addition to being annoying on many levels.
>
> Since I run it from screen and don't actually look at that desktop very
> often, I didn't realize there was a GUI waiting for a response. There
> should not have been.
>
> Once I detected the GUI I notice it refuses to yield focus. Double-bad.
> Ah, it'll yeild the focus, but not the keyboard. Even more double-bad.
>
> DISPLAY is not set, so there should be no GUI popping up for any reason.
>
> I generally run this particular command remotely, so knowing that a GUI
> popped up doesn't really help. Well, I can kill the GUI via another shell
> should I remember what the problem is.
>
> Any suggestions on how to turn this GUI off?
>
> I can remove ssh-askpass-gnome and break ubuntu-desktop.
>
> I can remove id_dsa.
>
> In other circumstances neither of those would be an option. I suppose I
> could use -i to specify a non-existent identity file, but intentionally
> breaking things generally seems like the wrong solution.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
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Stephen