id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,resolution,keywords,cc,fix_version,see_also 162,Disable GNOME keyring prompt on SSH,geofft,,"From mail to debathena@ on March 8, 2009: If you try to use SSH on cluster machines and you have a GNOME keyring (I don't know the conditions under which one would get created, but I have one), you get an annoying popup asking you to unlock your keyring, which is probably locked with an old Kerberos password. According to http://live.gnome.org/GnomeKeyring/Ssh , you can disable the prompt by setting the gconf key /apps/gnome-keyring/daemon-components/ssh to false. This may affect people who do want to use an SSH agent, though. Another option would be to figure out how to default gnome-keyring to not encrypt the keyring, which is probably acceptable given AFS permissions. This wouldn't help users who already have encrypted keyrings (unless we tell them to rm ~/.gnome2/keyrings/*). jdreed says we can just document how to do one of the above two options / remove the keyring, or disable the SSH agent by default and document how to enable it. A third option is to make debathena-ssh-client-config cause ssh_config to prefer Kerberos auth before public/private key auth. ghudson favors this one, as do I. We can do this by setting our own list of PreferredAuthentications, with GSSAPI before SSH keys.",defect,new,trivial,The Distant Future,--,,,,,