From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Albinus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: tramp "Enter passphrase for key" Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:48:00 +0200 Message-ID: <874ofr1n0f.fsf@gmx.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1279817350 6788 80.91.229.12 (22 Jul 2010 16:49:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:49:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Gary To: Bastian Beischer Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 22 18:49:06 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ObyxG-0002ZL-8B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:49:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57703 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ObyxF-0000ay-Ip for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:49:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=33863 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ObywK-0000YF-2z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:48:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ObywI-0003wX-Qf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:48:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:56470) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ObywI-0003wO-Es for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:48:06 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 22 Jul 2010 16:48:04 -0000 Original-Received: from p4FC1910E.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO detlef.gmx.de) [79.193.145.14] by mail.gmx.net (mp065) with SMTP; 22 Jul 2010 18:48:04 +0200 X-Authenticated: #3708877 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19NBL8387VNjKdn0ci7Fn62BFgtv8o/8ym5ovuPgw Ed+0N25tJ/mF6H In-Reply-To: (Bastian Beischer's message of "Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:48:20 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:74239 Archived-At: Bastian Beischer writes: > I assume that your problem is that these variables are only set in terminals > but not in programs started from GNOME/KDE/... (where .bashrc and the like > are not sourced). > Hence, tramp will not know anything about the ssh-agent and prompt you for > the password. In that case you should try to find a way to make your > ssh-agent known to the session. Usually, Tramp knows ssh_agent, and asks for a *passphrase* then. At least under GNOME, which I use. On more modern systems, gnome-keyring is involved, which is also fine. > Cheers > Bastian Best regards, Michael.