On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 1:30 PM, der.hans <PLUGd@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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