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[Rob Hills <rhills@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This bug has hit me quite hard in the last week, breaking a number of
automated ssh processes that have been working without a hitch prior to
sometime after Monday evening (8 December, UTC+8) this week.  I can pin
it down to that because each Monday and Friday evening I use a scripted
ssh tunnel to connect a pgAdmin III client to a remote Postgres
database.  It worked last Monday, it didn't in between.  Sometime after
Monday this week, other ssh processes also broke.

I'm providing this info in case it helps someone pin down what changed
to cause this problem.  I'm surprised it's only flagged as affecting 4
people!

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Title:
  SSH client requires SSH_AUTH_SOCK=0 will not work without it, can't
  use key auth without SSH_AUTH_SOCK=0

Status in openssh package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I expect that when using key based authentication I do $ssh user@0.0.0.0 I expect to be asked for the key password.  Instead I get Agent admitted failure to sign using the key.
  Permission denied (publickey).

  Using SSH_AUTH_SOCK=0 solves the problem allowing me to be asked for
  the key password.

  What should happen is that I should not have to specify
  SSH_AUTH_SOCK=0 on the CLI, I should only have to type $ user@0.0.0.0

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: openssh-client 1:6.6p1-2ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-37.64-generic 3.13.11.7
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-37-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.5
  Architecture: i386
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Sat Oct 11 07:19:08 2014
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-09-08 (33 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release i386 (20140722.2)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  RelatedPackageVersions:
   ssh-askpass       N/A
   libpam-ssh        N/A
   keychain          N/A
   ssh-askpass-gnome 1:6.6p1-2ubuntu2
  SSHClientVersion: OpenSSH_6.6.1p1 Ubuntu-2ubuntu2, OpenSSL 1.0.1f 6 Jan 2014
  SourcePackage: openssh
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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