Looks like this is a known issue in gnome-keyring: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=641082
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-keyring in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/771272 Title: ssh-add does not handle ECDSA keys until ssh-agent exports are manually launched Status in GNOME keyring services: Unknown Status in “gnome-keyring” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: gnome-keyring I'm not sure I have described it correctly in the summary, but this is what happens: I run ssh-add in a new terminal and enter my passphrase, which is the same for my DSA and ECDSA key: the DSA identity is added, but the ECDSA gets the "Error reading response length from authentication socket. Could not add identity: /home/claudio/.ssh/id_ecdsa" error. I run ssh-agent, copy and paste the output in the terminal and re-run ssh-add. Both identities are correctly added: ============================================================================ claudio@Chuck:~$ ssh-add Enter passphrase for /home/claudio/.ssh/id_dsa: Identity added: /home/claudio/.ssh/id_dsa (/home/claudio/.ssh/id_dsa) Error reading response length from authentication socket. Could not add identity: /home/claudio/.ssh/id_ecdsa claudio@Chuck:~$ ssh-agent SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-szGWMUbE3916/agent.3916; export SSH_AUTH_SOCK; SSH_AGENT_PID=3917; export SSH_AGENT_PID; echo Agent pid 3917; claudio@Chuck:~$ SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-szGWMUbE3916/agent.3916; export SSH_AUTH_SOCK; claudio@Chuck:~$ SSH_AGENT_PID=3917; export SSH_AGENT_PID; claudio@Chuck:~$ echo Agent pid 3917; Agent pid 3917 claudio@Chuck:~$ ssh-add Enter passphrase for /home/claudio/.ssh/id_dsa: Identity added: /home/claudio/.ssh/id_dsa (/home/claudio/.ssh/id_dsa) Identity added: /home/claudio/.ssh/id_ecdsa (/home/claudio/.ssh/id_ecdsa) ============================================================================ Here is the content of my ~/.ssh/ claudio@Chuck:~$ ls -l .ssh total 32 -rw-r--r-- 1 claudio claudio 726 2011-04-15 23:34 config -r-------- 1 claudio claudio 751 2011-04-05 10:35 id_dsa -rw-r--r-- 1 claudio claudio 603 2011-04-05 10:34 id_dsa.pub -r-------- 1 claudio claudio 444 2011-04-05 10:29 id_ecdsa -rw-r--r-- 1 claudio claudio 267 2011-04-05 10:23 id_ecdsa.pub -rw------- 1 claudio claudio 6402 2011-04-19 18:04 known_hosts -rw-r--r-- 1 claudio claudio 2760 2011-04-06 17:05 known_hosts.old ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: gnome-keyring 2.92.92.is.2.32.1-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Apr 26 16:27:02 2011 ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US:en LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-keyring UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-03 (23 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-keyring/+bug/771272/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
