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Date:	Sat, 3 Dec 2011 13:44:59 -0500
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: gnome-keyring bug in snapshots
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On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 09:19:10PM -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
>For some time now, snapshots have displayed a bug wrt gnome-keyring,
>namely that passwords don't "register" when entered.  This wreaks
>havoc on the GNOME desktop where so many programs rely on
>gnome-keyring.
>
>This is easy to reproduce, but requires xorg-server, dbus,
>gnome-keyring, and openssh.  At a new terminal:
>
>$ XWin -multiwindow &>/dev/null &
>$ export DISPLAY=:0
>$ eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax`
>$ export `gnome-keyring-daemon --start --components=ssh`
>$ ssh USER AT HOSTNAME
>(Enter password for ssh key in GUI prompt)
>
>What should happen (and does with 1.7.9) is a successful login.  WIth
>the 20111129 snapshot, the following message is displayed on the
>terminal:
>
>Agent admitted failure to sign using the key.
>
>(which AFAIK comes from ssh) and the gnome-keyring prompt asks for the
>password to the next private key listed in ~/.ssh/config (even if its
>the wrong key for HOSTNAME).  Subsequent logins do succeed, however.
>This does not occur with ssh-agent(1).
>
>Frankly, I'm a little baffled by this one, but a non-working GNOME
>desktop is really keeping me from testing the snapshots for any length
>of time.

I'm looking at this now.

FYI.

cgf

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