[Xfce-bugs] [Bug 6073] xinitrc replaces gnome-keyring SSH_AUTH_SOCK with ssh-agent

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http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6073

--- Comment #5 from Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org> 2010-09-16 07:39:12 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > (In reply to comment #2)
> > > (In reply to comment #1)
> > > > Hmm, the problem is that there isn't a good way to check that the auth sock is
> > > > actually valid and isn't a stale env var left over from something else.
> > > 
> > > Why is ssh-agent called from there in the first place? Shouldn't it be another
> > > service in /etc/xdg/autostart?
> > 
> > autostart is too late in the startup process. It has to be a parent of
> > xfce4-session so every child inherits the SSH_AUTH_SOCK and SSH_AGEN_PID
> > envvar.
> 
> Nope, GNOME starts the keyring through autostart, but of course you would have
> to register Xfce as a session manager in dbus, and listen for when environment
> variables are requested to be updated.
> 
> http://live.gnome.org/SessionManagement/GnomeSession

Yes, as you know xfce4-session doesn't support this. So my point still stands,
autostart is too late in the process.
> 
> The only other sane option is to make it a configuration directly in the
> preferences, so that the user can choose between gnome compat's keyring, or
> ssh-agent.

That's already the case. If you select “Start gnome services at startup”, then
gnome-keyring is run. In 4.6 it uses the old api though, so I doesn't work
correctly. But there are patches to make it start correctly and replace
ssh-agent.

See http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5912

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