Gnome-keyring-daemon and ssh outside gnome

Question

I had gnome-keyring set up so that on login it unlocks the keyring and reads ssh keys (so that it acts as a ssh-agent), as described here: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeKeyring/Ssh and here http://live.gnome.org/GnomeKeyring/Pam
This was working great also outside gnome (for instance in xmonad and openbox), up to version 2.24.1. However, after update to 2.26.0-1 this stopped working. It is still OK in gnome, but in other environments (where the only gnome thing that is loaded is gnome-keyring-manager) it doesn't work correctly - it loads, but instead of creating both /tmp/keyring-<sth>/socket and /tmp/keyring-<sth>/socket.ssh it only created the first one, so no ssh support.
Can anyone help a bit with what has changed, or what could have gone wrong?
Thanks.

Answer 1

bender02 wrote:
abarilla wrote:I had the same problem with openbox.  Using gdm fixed it.
Well if this is the only way to fix this then it sucks big time, since I don't want to run a huge login manager just to unlock the passwords
adding the content of /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/30-dbus to the ~/.xinitrc works for me.
# launches a session dbus instance
dbuslaunch="`which dbus-launch 2>/dev/null`"
if [ -n "$dbuslaunch" ] && [ -x "$dbuslaunch" ] && [ -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS" ]; then
eval `$dbuslaunch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session`
fi
or sourcing the 30-dbus file in the ~/.xinitrc
source /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/30-dbus
or for all files in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/
source /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/*
That's what GDM and KDM do.
Thanks to Jan de Groot for the hint.
Last edited by SiD (2009-04-14 09:58:46)