Stef Walter wrote: > I need the help of a Desktop session genius (is there a gnome-session > mailing list?). > > - gvfs has an SSH module which uses OpenSSH. > - OpenSSH checks for the presence of the SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment > variable in order to integrate with SSH agents. > - gnome-keyring-daemon is started from by /etc/xdg/autostart > - gnome-keyring-daemon sets the SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment variable. > - gvfsd is auto started by DBus. > > The end result of the above is that the SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment > variable is not set in gvfsd. This has regressed in GNOME 2.26.0 > however this may be a race condition or heisenbug.
Just a follow up. After discussing this further in bugzilla [1] the "best" solution [2] that came up was to have gvfsd-sftp get the SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment variable from gnome-keyring and set it manually in its own process. Architecturally this isn't pretty, but at least it fixes the problem. Cheers, Stef [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=577614 [2] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=578708 _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
