[Bug 1312928] Re: SSH-Agent not working in KDE/X-Session if user's login shell is a tcsh

[Colin Watson]

** Changed in: openssh (Ubuntu Saucy)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin Watson (cjwatson)

** Changed in: openssh (Ubuntu Trusty)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin Watson (cjwatson)

** Changed in: openssh (Ubuntu Saucy)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: openssh (Ubuntu Trusty)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: openssh (Ubuntu Saucy)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: openssh (Ubuntu Trusty)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: openssh (Ubuntu Trusty)
    Milestone: None => ubuntu-14.04.1

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Title:
  SSH-Agent not working in KDE/X-Session if user's login shell is a tcsh

Status in “openssh” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed
Status in “openssh” source package in Saucy:
  Triaged
Status in “openssh” source package in Trusty:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  For X11/KDE sessions ssh-agent is started via upstart using configuration file /usr/share/upstart/sessions/ssh-agent.conf with the instruction ``eval "$(ssh-agent)" >/dev/null''.
  If the user's login shell is tcsh or csh ssh-agent will return c-shell like setenv commands which upstart/shell do not recognize. Thus environment variables $SSH_* are not propagated into the user's desktop session and neither ssh nor ssh-add are able to contact ssh-agent.
  Solution: use ``eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"'' to force sh-like output of ssh-agent (context diff included as attachment)
  Addition information: Bug occures at least in 13.10 and 14.04 amd64 architecture. In 14.04 the affected openssh-client package version is 1:6.2p2-6ubuntu0.3

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