Re: SSH to GNOME keyring

>     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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