Re: [sshmenu] Applet cannot find SSH_AUTH_SOCK

[Grant M. <gr...@mc...>]

On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 02:57 +0100, Grzegorz Staniak wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm using gnome-sshmenu-applet 3.18 from Fedora 14 repos, and recently
> I'm getting the "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK is not set. Is the ssh-agent running?"
> error when trying to connect to places.

When you get that prompt and click 'Close', does the connection work
with agent support?  Or do you get prompted to enter your password?

If you get prompted to enter a password, then that suggests there's a
problem with the way your GNOME session is being started.  Perhaps the
GNOME panels and associated applets are being launched before the agent
is being launched?

On the other hand, if you do manage to connect successfully without
being prompted to enter a password then you might as well comment out
all calls to the add_key method.  The add_key method really dates back
to the old days with the vanilla OpenSSH agent before the GNOME Seahorse
key manager existed.

An alternative workaround would be to follow the Hacker's Guide to
define your own add_key method that does nothing.

Regards
Grant