Maybe get creative with th sudoers and groups, only half breaking things? On 12/10/08, der.hans wrote: > moin moin, > > after and upgrade to Intrepid, SSH ( run from a shell in screen ) is > popping up a gnome-keyring GUI asking for the password to unlock a private > key. > > This is essentially a DoS in addition to being annoying on many levels. > > Since I run it from screen and don't actually look at that desktop very > often, I didn't realize there was a GUI waiting for a response. There > should not have been. > > Once I detected the GUI I notice it refuses to yield focus. Double-bad. > Ah, it'll yeild the focus, but not the keyboard. Even more double-bad. > > DISPLAY is not set, so there should be no GUI popping up for any reason. > > I generally run this particular command remotely, so knowing that a GUI > popped up doesn't really help. Well, I can kill the GUI via another shell > should I remember what the problem is. > > Any suggestions on how to turn this GUI off? > > I can remove ssh-askpass-gnome and break ubuntu-desktop. > > I can remove id_dsa. > > In other circumstances neither of those would be an option. I suppose I > could use -i to specify a non-existent identity file, but intentionally > breaking things generally seems like the wrong solution. > > ciao, > > der.hans > -- > # http://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.LuftHans.com/Classes/ > # I've got a photographic memory, > # but I'm lousy photographer. - der.hans > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Sent from my mobile device A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss