workaround for gnome-keyring ssh auth bug in Fedora 17

So if you upgraded to Fedora 17 the other day you have probably been hit by #662528, which means gnome-keyring’s SSH agent isn’t exported into the environment, which means no SSH agent, and sadness.

Until the fix is out of updates-pending, you can work around this by adding:

export $(gnome-keyring-daemon -s)

To your .bashrc or similar.

Author: Danielle

Danielle is an Australian software engineer, computer scientist and feminist. She doesn't really work on GNOME any more (sadly). Opinions and writing are solely her own and so not represent her employer, the GNOME Foundation, or anyone else but herself.

4 thoughts on “workaround for gnome-keyring ssh auth bug in Fedora 17”

  1. What do you mean? A couple of weeks back I even clicked the checkbox in the new Shell “enter passphrase” dialog and my SSH key gets automatically unlocked on login.

  2. Uh…are you sure? The upstream report is closed as FIXED with the implication that it’s in 3.4.0, and we certainly have 3.4.0 in F17. I have not noticed such a bug at all on my desktop, ssh key handling works fine…

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