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[Charles Baylis <charles.baylis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I can confirm that the "GNOME Keyring SSH Agent" entry is ticked in the
startup applications window. A little more experimentation has provided
more insight.

Starting with gnome-keyring 3.10.1-1ubuntu4.1, and continuing into
3.10.1-1ubuntu4.2, the ssh-agent only affects some processes started
within a user session. The last working version was gnome-keyring
3.10.1-1ubuntu4

To demonstrate:
press Windows key, type xterm<enter>. In the new terminal window type 'echo $SSH_AUTH_SOCK'. Result, as expected, is something like /run/user/1000/keyring-mm1fAl/ssh

Now, press Alt-F2, type xterm<enter>. n the new terminal window type
'echo $SSH_AUTH_SOCK'. This results in an empty line - when started in
this manner the terminal does not have access to the SSH agent.

I expect processes to have the SSH_AUTH_SOCK variable defined regardless
of the method used to start them

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1387303

Title:
  regression: gnome-keyring components can't be disabled anymore

Status in gnome-keyring package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in gnome-keyring source package in Trusty:
  Fix Released
Status in gnome-keyring source package in Utopic:
  Fix Released
Status in gnome-keyring source package in Vivid:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  To disable gnome-keyring ssh agent,
   - disable gnome keyring ssh in startup applications

  To disable gnome-keyring gpg agent,
   - disable gnome keyring gpg in startup applications

  If above are disabled, stock ssh-agent & gpg-agent upstart jobs are
  used instead.

  =====
  SRU tests

  By default environment should have SSH & GPG agent variables pointing
  at gnome-keyring provided ones.

  Disabling gpg or ssh gnome keyring desktop files in "Startup
  Applications" upon next login stock gpg/ssh agent's will be used. (No
  gnome-keyring name in the SSH/GPG agent variable values)

  Similarly, disabling upstart jobs for ssh or gpg agent also enables
  stock ssh/gpg agents. (e.g. echo manual > ~/.config/upstart/gnome-
  keyring-ssh.override)

  =====

  GNOME Keyring is by default a rather invasive service, which meddles
  with security sensitive processes invasively. This may or may not be
  wise depending on a users situation.

  One particular case is GNOME Keyring's gpg-agent implementation, which
  is incomplete and therefore doesn't support GPG's OpenPGP smartcard
  support. gpg simply fails (with smartcards) when GNOME Keyring is
  impersonating gpg-agent...

  So to be able to use OpenPGP smartcards on Ubuntu, one needs to
  disable GNOME Keyring from impersonating gpg-agent, which for quite
  some time now has been trivial to effectively do:

  echo 'X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false' >> /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-
  keyring-gpg.desktop

  With GNOME Keyring's recent update (3.10.1-1ubuntu4.1) in Trusty, this
  seems to have been broken by the addition of:

  /usr/share/upstart/sessions/gnome-keyring.conf

  So it seems the /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-keyring files are either
  being ignored, or the started process is supplanted by the process
  started by the upstart session config.

  What is unclear to me is what the upstart session configuration is
  supposed to achieve? And if it is meant to supplant the xdg/autostart
  files, those should probably have been removed to prevent them from
  causing any confusion as to how gnome-keyring is started/managed.

  Presuming the upstart session is meant to stay, I would suggest to
  remove the /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-keyring-*.desktop files to prevent
  confusion as mentioned above. And in my opinion a mechanism should be
  provided so users can control which gnome-keyring components '--
  components=pkcs11,secrets,ssh,gpg' are activated using some
  configuration file in /etc, as files in /usr aren't meant to be user
  edited.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: gnome-keyring 3.10.1-1ubuntu4.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-39.66-generic 3.13.11.8
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-39-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.5
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Wed Oct 29 18:14:57 2014
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-07 (205 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Beta amd64 (20140326)
  SourcePackage: gnome-keyring
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  mtime.conffile..etc.xdg.autostart.gnome.keyring.gpg.desktop: 2014-04-09T19:49:03.884840

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