Ubuntu
gnome-keyring package

  1. Bug #771272
  2. Comment #12

Comment 12 for bug 771272

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Isaac (diptongo) wrote : Re: ssh-add does not handle ECDSA keys until ssh-agent exports are manually launched

You can automatically bypass gnome-keyring with the following shell snippet:

export SSH_AGENT_PID=$(pgrep -ou $USER ssh-agent)
export SSH_AUTH_SOCK="$(find -L /tmp -type s -user $USER -name 'agent.*' 2>/dev/null | head -1)"

If you know where to stick it, at session startup, then it may serve as a workaround. Or you can place it in a script just wrapping ssh-add. I'm not sure if the gnome-keyring socket would still work for SSH once the key has been loaded.