On Fri, 2018-06-22 at 13:54 +0200, Berend De Schouwer wrote: > On Fri, 2018-06-22 at 07:37 -0400, Jeffrey Ross wrote: > > At one point Fedora had something (keyring?) that would allow me to > > unlock my SSH private keys and it would keep the unlocked key > > available > > so I could ssh without having to unlock my key every time. I > > typically > > run a simple "terminal" window and then "ssh <hostname>" since my key > > is > > not retained unlocked I'm prompted for a password. > > > > Fast forward to today, the system had been reinstalled (new > > hardware, > > new disks, etc) and I no longer have that ability. I'm currently > > runn > > Fedora 28 and the desktop is "Gnome", I'm sure it is just a matter > > of > > installing/configuring/running the correct application.... but which > > one? > > You're *probably* missing the gnome-keyring package. > > you'll need: > - ssh-agent (to remember) > - an app that processes your passphrase (gnome-keyring or pinentry-gtk) > > ssh-agent is part of openssh-clients. It's usually run by gnome- > keyring-daemon. Look in the process list for it. It should be > running. > > ssh-add is a cli app that will let you add the key and trigger a > passphrase without a GUI. > > You can see if a key is being remembered by running 'ssh-add -l' > > gnome-shell should prompt for the key (the prompt will be themed like > gnome-shell), but so can pinentry/pinentry-gtk (themed like a Gtk2 app) See also seahorse(1). poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/DHCDZV4JI3EPETMAQZZROZS324EDYMWF/
