Replying to all here; thanks a lot for the help.
First, sorry about the "WTF" crack. I was in a rush, and that nasty
dialog was holding me up. On top of that the dialog seemed (and still
seems) completely bass-ackwards.
Nalin Dahyabhai wrote:
> ...
> I'm pretty sure that's gnome-keyring presenting the dialog. Just to
> be sure, the password you gave it was the passphrase for your SSH
> key? It works when I give it mine, though I'm not sure I'm happy
> about the key being added to the keyring automatically when I do
> that.
Yep, that looks like the culprit. If I kill gnome-keyring, I don't get
the dialog with my rsync.
I'm not sure I ever set up a passphrase. I have a public key, so I must
have at some point, but I'm sure I don't remember (exactly) what it is.
At any rate, the dialog asks for a "pass/word/" and gives little or no
clue which password it might be interested in.
Andrew Farris wrote:
> ...
> Do you have the permissions all correct in ~/.ssh? Check that they
> are only read and editable by your user?
Good thought.
They are correct (I think): most files in .ssh are 600; a couple, e.g.
identity.pub, are 644. The dir itself is 0755.
Jon Stanley wrote:
> ...
> I'm sure there's some way to disable it, but I haven't a clue
> what it is (I probably wouldn't disable it even if I knew how - thus
> why I haven't looked - probably some gconf thing, though)
I looked through the desktop menus: I couldn't find any way to /start/
it, or otherwise configure it.
I looked through the session config tool: I couldn't find any mention of it.
So, I'm still looking for a way to make it go away permanently.
Maybe if it hadn't popped up and gotten in my way before, I'd be a
little more open-minded, but (as a "tester") here's why I think this may
not be ripe for general release:
* I never asked for any pasword or key manager, and the dialog gave no
clue what it was or where it was coming from.
* The dialog did not say what identity it wanted to authenticate.
* It told me only that something wanted access to "id_rsa". It didn't
say what or why, and it seemed to assume that I had some idea what the
significance of that obscure name was. It so happens that I do know that
"id_rsa" is part of ssh, but would most people know that? And what good
does that do? I don't know if it's a serious thing that something wants
access to that file.
* Entering a password just got me another shot at the same dialog,
effectively blocking what I wanted to do.
* Clicking "Deny" on the dialog (twice) made the dialog go away and the
operation continued on. What was denied?
* It seems strange to have a command-line application trigger a GUI
dialog as a side effect.
* It seems strange to be challenged over access to my own file, by a
program that I ran. The phrase "Cancel or Allow?" comes to mind.
Ok, I think that's about it.
I am effectively clueless about all of this, so there are probably
technical reasons why all this is just so much ignorant whineage. I
blathered on because I can't help but wonder how normal users are going
to deal with this.
Thanks again for the suggestions; if anyone has an idea how/where to
configure this, I'm still looking.
<Joe
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