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[scnaifeh <375341@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think I have the same issue as @circlecode on Oneiric.  In the past,
when I ran ssh from any terminal, the gui ssh askpass dialog came up,
and my keys were automatically added to the agent.  With Oneiric, I have
to manually ssh-add my key or I have to enter the passphrase every time
I run ssh.  This is on a clean install of Oneiric.

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Title:
  ssh-add/ssh-askpass (gnome) not launching graphical prompt on connect

Status in “gnome-keyring” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gnome-keyring

  On previous release ubuntu 8.04/ubuntu 8.10 when using ssh to connect
  to remote hosts with ssh private keys from within the gnome
  environment, the ssh-askpass (gnome-ssh-askpass renamed) is launched
  to prompt for the pass phrase for the keys in
  $HOME/$USER/.ssh/{identity,id_dsa,id_rsa} once this pass phrase is
  input it is handled by gnome-keyring/ssh-agent for future connects so
  that no passphrase is required for any machine using that key.

  On a clean install of ubuntu 9.04 the behaviour is different. Upon
  connection to an ssh host, ssh-askpass is no longer launched and
  instead the ssh terminal application prompts you for the key.

  Without the setup of scripts/wrappers, this key must be entered every
  time a user wants to connect to a host using that private ssh key.

  There are many work arounds for this (using ssh agent, launching ssh-
  askpass as a session at login etc) but I believe this is either a bug,
  or an expected change in behavior in how gnome is intergrated with
  ssh.

  I have been unable to find any documentation to indicate a change in
  behavior in the gnome desktop environment.

  I am unsure if this bug request should sit with the gnome-desktop
  environment, gnome-keyring or the ssh team, I suspect this is a
  keyring intergration issue, but I have been unable to find any
  design/documentation on how keyring was working with 8.04/8.10 and
  ssh.

  
  this problem appears in both 32 and 64bit versions of the 9.04 OS

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