Bug#472477: this bug still exists

Giacomo Mulas giacomo.mulas at inaf.it
Thu May 21 20:12:02 BST 2020


Hello.

I was just hit by this bug, when I temporarily added some ssh keys to do
some tests to find that it was impossible to remove them from the agent.
I am running an up to date debian sid system as of May 21, 2020.
And I can confirm that still "ssh-add -D" fails to remove keys from the
agent.

However, I found a way to manually remove/disable individual keys: the agent
writes them in a text file, located $HOME/.gnupg/sshcontrol.  Commenting
and/or deleting keys from that file, they are "forgotten" by the agent.

Of course, this is far from an optimal solution, this bug is still open and
still grave. But at least one can remove keys without neessarily disabling
the gnome keyring daemon ssh-agent component.

Best regards,
Giacomo Mulas

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