Bug#531412: kdeinit4 calls ssh-add but adds no identities
Package: kdeinit4
Version: kdeinit
Severity: normal
Upon login I get a ksshaskpass window. It duly accepts my correct
passphrase, but it doesn't add any identities to the X session.
"ssh-add -l" confirms this: "The agent has no identities."
Here is some of the hierarchical process table when the window
appears. As you can see, the parent is kdeinit4.
ben 4216 0.1 0.1 35656 5512 ? Ss 04:22 0:00 kdeinit4: kdeinit4 Running...
ben 4217 0.1 0.3 38572 10136 ? S 04:22 0:00 \_ klauncher
ben 4254 0.4 0.5 102512 16900 ? Sl 04:22 0:00 \_ ksmserver --windowmanager sawfish
ben 4256 0.6 0.2 14032 7000 ? R 04:22 0:00 | \_ sawfish
ben 4264 0.0 0.2 29912 7028 ? S 04:22 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/kwrited
ben 4279 0.1 0.2 37700 7144 ? S 04:22 0:00 \_ kdeinit4: kio_desktop [kdeinit] desktop local:/tmp/ksocket-ben/klauncherMT4217.slave-socket local:/
ben 4281 0.0 0.1 36216 5632 ? S 04:22 0:00 \_ kdeinit4: kio_file [kdeinit] file local:/tmp/ksocket-ben/klauncherMT4217.slave-socket local:/tmp/ks
ben 4291 0.2 0.1 11588 5960 ? S 04:22 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/xterm
ben 4327 0.0 0.0 4796 1904 pts/2 Ss+ 04:22 0:00 | \_ zsh
ben 4292 0.0 0.0 5024 1684 ? S 04:22 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/ssh-add
ben 4298 0.8 0.4 26028 13560 ? S 04:22 0:00 | \_ /usr/bin/ssh-askpass Enter passphrase for /home/ben/.ssh/id_dsa:
There is indeed an ssh-agent running under startkde:
root 3679 0.0 0.0 15184 1624 ? Ss 04:21 0:00 /usr/sbin/gdm
root 3682 0.0 0.1 15692 3156 ? S 04:21 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/gdm
root 3688 3.9 1.1 110060 37076 tty7 Rs+ 04:21 0:04 \_ /usr/bin/X :0 -audit 0 -auth /var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt7
ben 4025 0.0 0.0 4484 1572 ? Ss 04:22 0:00 \_ /bin/sh /usr/bin/startkde
ben 4158 0.0 0.0 4888 604 ? Ss 04:22 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session /usr/bin/startkde
But no process I can find (starting xterm from kde's new panel, from
the new launcher, from ~/.kde/Autostart, etc...) recognises any key:
ssh-add -l lists nothing.
If I run ssh-add myself from Autostart or later from a shell, then
everything works fine, the identity is added, etc. But then of course
there's the question of which ssh-askpass window I actually need to
type my password into.
This actually scared me the first time I saw it--I figured someone had
Trojaned my system and installed a fake ssh-askpass.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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