gvfs is not using the gnome-keyring agent for ssh connections

Thank you for your bug report, confirming as a gvfs issue, could be due to the start order

I have the same problem with 8.10, hope it can be fixed...

Additional vote for this bug.

We use ssh keys exclusively to connect to servers - i.e. password access is disabled in the SSH server for additional security. This bug is preventing any access to sftp/ssh servers via nautilus which I was getting very used to on 8.10 - now running 9.04 and it has been a problem for a while.

Is there any additional log files that I can attach to help with this? I can't find if/where gvfs writing any output to.

there is no need to "vote" for bugs, that's not really a gvfs bug but rather an issue on how the dbus session bus is started it doesn't get the correst ssh environment set

if you restart gvfsd after the session start that should be working

Hi Sebastien, Thanks for the clue re restarting gvfsd. I had to look up how to do it and I think this is the right way - please correct me if I'm wrong.

/usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd -r

Works perfectly now. Would be great to get this fixed permanently.

I've added Mark's command to my session startup and I'm happy to say that nautilus is once again using the ssh agent for connections. Thank you.

Any chance of seeing this corrected for the release?

upstream says that's fixed in svn now and will be 2.26.1 which will be in jaunty but you might want to give a try to svn to confirm that's working

will be fixed with the 2.16.1 update once accepted today

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-keyring - 2.26.1-0ubuntu1

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gnome-keyring (2.26.1-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    - Fix many problems with the new secure memory allocator.
      (lp: #328167, #338158, #352269)
    - DBus now automatically starts the gnome-keyring service properly.
      (lp: #344444)
    - When auto activating the gnome-keyring DBus service, check for an
      already running daemon.
    - Don't print critical warnings when registering with DBus fails.
    - Bump glib dependency.
    - Add DBus method for getting the gnome-keyring environment variables.
      (lp: #345496)
    - Fix crash when prompting to unlock the keyring.
    - Initialize daemon with LOGNAME and USERNAME environment variables.
    - Build fixes
  * debian/patches/03_secure-mem_crash.patch:
    - the change is in the new version

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:00:28 +0200

This bug was fixed in the package gvfs - 1.2.2-0ubuntu1

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gvfs (1.2.2-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    - ftp: Fix error handling in some cases
    - proxy monitor: Fix warning spew
  * debian/patches/91_svn_change_ssh_use_gnome_keyring.patch:
    - svn change to get the ssh backend to use gnome-keyring (lp: #345496)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:04:33 +0200

Hi everyone.

I've just hit this bug on my Karmic installation. This guy (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1354029) as well.

I think this bug should be reopened.

If I could provide any info which could shed light on this issue, please inform me.

TIA.

Please don't reopen bugs that are already fixed - you should report a new one instead. This specific bug is known to be fixed, so if you're experiencing an issue with similar symptoms, then it's a different bug