Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-xfce (8 mails)

[Robert Schweikert <rjschwei@xxxxxxxx>]

On 08/02/2011 07:08 PM, Guido Berhoerster wrote:
> Hello,
>
> * Robert Schweikert<rjschwei@xxxxxxxx>  [2011-08-03 00:34]:
> > Follow up and observation on my own question
> >
> > On 08/01/2011 04:46 PM, Robert Schweikert wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Just switched to Xfce recently and have run across a couple of things
> > > that appear to be start up service related when compared to GNOME.
> > >
> > > First, when building a package locally using osc, I end up with an "401
> > > Authentication" error. Pocking around a bit this appears to be
> > > gnome-keyring related. However, I have gnome-keyring-daemon running and
> > > marked as "autostart". When I used GNOME I didn't do anything special,
> > > osc just worked. Anyone has any idea what I need to do to get the
> > > keyring usage working again?
> > >
> > > Second, also authentication related, I now need to enter my passphrase
> > > when using key-authenticated ssh login. I suppose GNOME by default
> > > starts an ssh agent thus that the passphrase only gets entered once? How
> > > do I accomplish this with Xfce. The "autostratup" has an entry for "SSH
> > > Key Agent". What am I missing?
> >
> > When I turn on "Launch GNOME services on startup" in the "Advanced"
> > tab of the "Session and Startup" settings I can get the behavior
> > back I am used to in GNOME, i.e. when I ssh to a machine for the
> > first time I get a dialog box that lets me type in my passphrase.
> > Once I do this the key is "unlocked" and I can log into any machine
> > without needing to enter my passphrase again.
> >
> > However, enabeling this also means that I am running more stuff than
> > I probably want.
> >
> > I compared the list of processes running with the GNOME services
> > launced and without and compared them. However, nothing sticks out
> > as providing this nice "unlock the key" feature. Thus I am not
> > certain how to enable just that service to allow me to disable the
> > "Launch GNOME services on startup" setting again.
>
> you shouldn't use that setting, g-k-d is started through the PAM
> module so that no additional password needs to be entered to
> unlock it. It also needs to be initialized from the session and I
> suspect something isn't working right there (either the xdg
> autostart or session startup script) but I haven't had the time
> to investigate it yet. Feel free to open a bug to track this,
> it'll be needed anyway for a SRU.

Done: 710038

Thanks,
Robert

>

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