Hi,

I've got Gnome installed and want to connect to a remote server directory over SSH using ECDSA private keys. Since gnome-keyring doesn't support ECDSA I've removed it from the "run at startup" list from Gnome. Instead, when I log in, I run:

That way I get prompted to enter my passphrase when I log in and it adds the keys to OpenSSH agent.

From the command line I can SSH into my machine without being asked for a passphrase.

However if I do:

I always get "permission denied" as if it isn't even trying use the keys held in ssh-agent.

This happens even with DSA or RSA keys.

If I re-enable gnome-keyring at startup, then it will work with RSA/DSA keys (asking for a passphrase) but obviously this doesn't work with ECDSA.

I have this working just fine in Xubuntu so I don't know what is different on my Gentoo install.

Ok so I got a bit further with this.

It seems gvfsd is not looking at my SSH_AUTH_SOCK.

If I start "gvfsd -r" in a shell with SSH_AUTH_SOCK set properly then it works.

So what I need to know is how can I set SSH_AUTH_SOCK at startup so the environment that gvfsd runs in will pick it up?

I gues this implies that ssh-agent needs to run before gvfsd as well. Is that possible?

Solved:

Adding:

to my /etc/lightdm/Xsession script fixed the problem.

This ensures that ssh-agent is started and that the variables are exported before any of the other services like GVFS are started.