This isn't a bug, it's a feature. Read the gnome-keyring website
carefully, https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeKeyring/Ssh
[quote]
This assumes some familiarity with the ssh-add command. See its man page for
more info.
You can use ssh-add to manually add keys for use in the SSH agent. These
will be in addition to the automatically loaded keys.
The ssh-add -D will remove any keys you've added manually.
The ssh-add -D will lock any automatically loaded keys.
ssh-add -l and ssh-add -L will always list automatically loaded keys.
[/quote]
This is exactly what happens in 14.04; automatically loaded keys get
locked, manually added keys get removed from the agent.
Automatically loaded keys are:
[quote]
The SSH agent automatically loads files in ~/.ssh which have corresponding
*.pub paired files. Additional SSH keys can be manually loaded and managed via
the ssh-add command.
[/quote]
On a side note, it seems 14.04 also starts the openssh 'ssh-agent'
automatically, so effectively running two agents by default (is this
intentional?). Ssh-agent stores its socket in /tmp. Try something like:
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-ABCDEF123456/agent.12345 ssh-add
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Title:
ssh-add -D deleting all identities does not work. Also, why are all
identities auto-added?
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