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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