[Bug 2070060] [NEW] ssh-add prints non-errors to stderr

[Bilin Sun]

Public bug reported:

I recently updated to 24.04, and switched from the default Wayland
environment to the X11 environment (by selecting "Ubuntu on Xorg"
instead of "Ubuntu" on the login screen) for better compatibility with
some software. After the switch, every time I logged in, I got a dialog
window saying

> Error found when loading /home/user/.profile:
> Identity added: /home/user/.ssh/id_ed25519
> As a result the session will not be configured correctly. You should fix the problem as soon as feasible.

This turned out to be caused by the line `ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_25519` which
I put in my `.profile` earlier. Once I changed it to `ssh-add
~/.ssh/id_25519 2>/dev/null`, this dialog stopped showing up again.

I believe that "Identity added" should not be considered an error, and
should be printed to stdout rather than stderr.

** Affects: openssh (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  ssh-add prints non-errors to stderr

Status in openssh package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I recently updated to 24.04, and switched from the default Wayland
  environment to the X11 environment (by selecting "Ubuntu on Xorg"
  instead of "Ubuntu" on the login screen) for better compatibility with
  some software. After the switch, every time I logged in, I got a
  dialog window saying

  > Error found when loading /home/user/.profile:
  > Identity added: /home/user/.ssh/id_ed25519
  > As a result the session will not be configured correctly. You should fix the problem as soon as feasible.

  This turned out to be caused by the line `ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_25519`
  which I put in my `.profile` earlier. Once I changed it to `ssh-add
  ~/.ssh/id_25519 2>/dev/null`, this dialog stopped showing up again.

  I believe that "Identity added" should not be considered an error, and
  should be printed to stdout rather than stderr.

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