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Greetings

When I attempt to use "gcloud compute ssh" or "gcloud compute copy-files", a dialogue box pops-up and says:

"Enter password to unlock the private key An application wants to access the private key 'trashmob@superminion', but it is locked"

(This happens, for example using gcloud compute ssh uncleanspirit_gmail_com@instance-1 --zone us-central1-f --project corpse-marionette-851)

Alas, no password I supply will placate it. It does not seem to help if I've logged into to an account on my local computer with admin privileges or not. I do this after "gcloud auth login". I am using ubuntu 14.04. I have no trouble to SSH to the instance using the web interface.

This likely has to do with gnome-keyring, not gcloud. A lot of us use linux distributions which use gnome, and gnome no longer makes it easy to disable (the ssh agent) in gnome-keyring. Anyone know how to get around this snag?

Thank you in advance

Andrew P.S. This may also be relevant: gcloud uses ECDSA, and gnome-keyring does not yet fully support ECDSA (ed25519?) https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=641082

Andrew Jewett
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  • Do you know what key it's prompting you about? Is this the key that you're supposed to use to connect to that host? Is this key protected with a passphrase? Do you know the passphrase? – Kenster Feb 10 '15 at 15:42
  • From searching around on google, I think it is asking for the user password on my local machine. (And that user must have admin privileges.) I can confirm that none of these issues occur when using kubuntu 14.10 (a version of ubuntu using the KDE window environment). ssh and copy-files work great. My advice to other users with this problem is to change their window environment, or make a USB boot disk, and use it to run gcloud. – Andrew Jewett Feb 11 '15 at 05:32
  • If it helps, in both cases: I installed "gcloud" in ubuntu by adding the "http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu partner" repository and installed using "sudo apt-get update", and "sudo apt-get install google-cloud-sdk") – Andrew Jewett Feb 11 '15 at 05:38
  • After further investigation: The problem does not occur on a fresh install of ubuntu 14.04. However it is not necessary to replace the window manager either. If anyone else runs into this problem, I was finally able to get gcloud ssh working on the original problematic OS: 1) I deleted these two directories: ~/.local/share/keyrings and ~/.ssh (Perhaps deleting .ssh was unnecessary.) 2) I logged out of my local computer. (This step seems to be important.) 3) Then I logged in again. 4) Then I attempted to connect with "gcloud auth login" and "gcloud compute ssh". – Andrew Jewett Feb 19 '15 at 02:50
  • (Incidentally, it took me several iterations of steps 1-4 to get everything working. I had to do this for each user account on my local machine.) – Andrew Jewett Feb 19 '15 at 02:53

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