SSH_AUTH_SOCK not being properly set: user has to type password even if saved in the password manager

This is a known problem in Lubuntu 10.10.
However, with recent udpates from gnome-keyring in Ubuntu Natty, I can't reproduce this problem any more, with a fresh install. It also seems fixed upstream (see gnome bug report). Can someone confirm that this bug is gone in Ubuntu Natty ?

the issue is not a gdm one

the gnome-keyring-ssh start desktop has "OnlyShowIn=GNOME;LXDE;XFCE;" so if there is an issue it's rather a lxd one

Hi Julien,

I'm not using lxdm, just lxde (Lubuntu Desktop actually). I have no idea where the problem is and what the expected behavior should be (the proxy sock being different?)...

Do you know what packages from Natty it suffices to download and confirm it to be working?

It is really blocking for a workflow with bazaar+sftp for instance.

Leo,

Be sure to have gnome-keyring installed on your system, and all packages up-to-date.

Sorry, I forgot to say I am using Maverick. Downloading the gnome-keyring .deb in Natty is enough?

Probably not, the new gnome-keyring may have new dependencies. It's better to test on a full natty system, because if it's not working, we can't know if it's because your system is not natty, or if the programm is not fixed.

I installed the package and all dependencies but the problem persists.
Is there a way to backport it? Thanks!

--
Leonardo Rolla
www.impa.br/~leorolla <http://www.impa.br/%7Eleorolla>

I get the Gnome keyring prompt in Natty but it only happens with user accounts where Ubuntu One has been enabled. I didn't get the prompt in Ubuntu, it started after I switched to Lubuntu using Pure LXDE instructions [1]. Should I open a new bug or does it have the same root cause than this bug?

[1] http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/purelxde

This problem still exists in oneiric with default lubuntu setup. SSH_AUTH_SOCK is point to ssh-agent socket which is started by /etc/X11/Xsession. Gnome-keyring starts but environment variables are not exported in LXDE/Lubuntu session. And I can not find the place where it's exported by gnome/unity session. So the only workaround I found is to add to ~/.profile or somewhere in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/...:
export `/usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --start --components=ssh`

So, I think this should be fixed the way similar to gnome-session, to allow enabling/disabling it via .config/autostart gui tools.

Installing libpam-gnome-keyring package solved the problem for me.

Default lubuntu oneiric installation contains this package and there is pam_gnome_keyring in /etc/pam.d/lxdm, so, that's not the case. But your words remind me to look into /var/log/auth.log, and that's what I see there:

gnome-keyring-daemon[1498]: couldn't set environment variable in session: The name org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files

After quick googling I found theese bugs related to this issue:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-keyring/+bug/344014
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-keyring/+bug/344444
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfce4-session/+bug/357346
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfce4-session/+bug/564831

They are mostly about xfce-session. So, it seems lxsession has exactly the same problems.

Here is the patch to startlubuntu script that solves the problem. If it's considered that lubuntu contains gnome-keyring by default, this patch seems to be sufficient.

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Thanks for the patch, I'll add it for Precise. I'll keep a bug on lxsession, because it should be handle automaticly by lxsession

This bug was fixed in the package lubuntu-default-settings - 0.23

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lubuntu-default-settings (0.23) precise; urgency=low

  * usr/share/lubuntu/openbox/menu.xml & rc.xml
   - Re-synchronize with upstream.
   - Workaround loose of focus of lxpanel run window (LP: #889414)
   - Add a rule to maximize all new windows with type normal.
   - Place new windows on the monitor with the mouse, rather than the primary
     monitor.
   - Use scrot -u -b (focused window with border) for the screenshot of the
     current window.
   - Add a shortcut for the power button.
   - Use horizontal presentation of the alt-tab.
   - Add a shortcut to lock the screen (LP: #912499)
  * usr/bin/startlubuntu* & usr/share/lubuntu/xscreensaver/xscreensaver:
   - Add a custom configuration file for xscreensaver, with blank mode by
     default (LP: #578789).
   - Don't append /etc/xdg in xdg path, already done by Xsession.d
   - Start gnome-keyring support for ssh before the session. Thanks urusha for
     the patch (LP: #664206).
 -- Julien Lavergne <email address hidden> Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:48:09 +0100