Custom Solution for Managing ssh-agent without Gnome Keyring

Goal

How to enter ssh private key password only once without having managed by Gnome Keyring. The ssh agent should remain detected every time new terminal spawned or even on tty console CTRL+ALT+F1 and so on.

Solutions

We will utilize ssh-add, ssh-agent and little bit shell script commands for achieving the goal.

Step 1

First start the authentication agent and redirect the result to a file so can gather the agent information later.

$ ssh-agent -s > /tmp/my-ssh-agent.sh

Execute the file so we have the correct environment variables needed by ssh-add.

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Stop Gnome Keyring for Managing ssh-agent on Xubuntu

Goal

Stop Gnome keyring for managing ssh-agent on Ubuntu so you can use the original OpenSSH ssh-agent implementation.

Quick Solution

The solution is quite easy because Gnome Keyring daemon provide a way to replace the existing session.

$ gnome-keyring-daemon --replace --daemonize --components=pkcs11,secrets,gpg

Command above will replace the existing Gnome Keyring daemon but it removes the ability to manage the ssh agent. You can execute command below to make sure Gnome keyring does not manage the ssh agent anymore.

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