[openbox] pam-ssh or gnome-keyring?

Dana Jansens dana at orodu.net
Tue Aug 30 12:22:58 EDT 2011


On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 4:07 AM, Louis-David Mitterrand
<vindex+lists-openbox at apartia.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 09:15:28AM +0200, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm using gdm3 as login manager and a ~/.xsession file with
>>
>>       exec openbox
>>
>> to launch ob when using "session default" in gdm3.
>>
>> When I login to gnome gnome-keyring automatically unlocks my ssh key.
>> How can I have the same thing when logging in to straight openbox?
>
> Answering my own question. Maybe worthy of a FAQ entry?

Or you could add a page to the wiki somewhere to discuss gnome-keyring
and openbox interaction. :)

>
> In order to use the gnome-keyring-daemon launched by
> libpam-gnome-keyring and gdm3 (under debian at least) when using a
> straight ~/.xsession file:
>
> - open a "gnome" session with gdm
>
> - launch a ssh session and unlock ssh key in the gnome-keyring dialog
>  while checking the "unlock ssh key at login" (or something like that),
>
> - add in ~/.xsession:
>
>        eval $(gnome-keyring-daemon --start --components=ssh)
>
> This configures the auto-launched gnome-keyring-daemon which otherwise
> times out and exits.
>
> - go back to your usual "system default" gdm session,
>
> - your ssh key is unlocked,
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