[pygtk] applet with ssh - passphrase problem

[Peter Robinson]

Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:
> On Seg, 2007-04-16 at 12:32 +1000, Peter Robinson wrote:
>   
>> I am writing an applet to manage an sshfs mount.
>>
>> The code that mounts the file system is
>> retcode = subprocess.call(['sshfs', self.mountfilesys, self.mountpt])
>>
>> I have set up my ssh connection to require a passphrase.
>>
>> When I add the applet to the panel and call the above code it asks for 
>> my passphrase.
>> If I run the app as stand alone then it does the mount without requiring 
>> the passphrase (because pam is handling things)
>>     
>
>   Are you sure of this?  Maybe when you try it on the command line it
> doesn't ask for passphrase because it already asked before for the
> applet.  You most likely have some sort of ssh agent running (such as
> seahorse).  Pam does not usually take care of this (though it is
> possible to make pam do it as well).
>
>   
>> Why do I get different behaviours and how can I fix the problem?
>>     
>
>   I would suggest you print os.environment to a file (one key,val pair
> on each line) in both cases, and compare the results.  You'll be able to
> determine which environment variable is responsible.
>
>  Also check for tips on this bug:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=389984
>
>   Regards,
>   

Thanks Gustavo,
I did as you suggested and had a look at the diffs between environments 
and added environment attributes to the .schema file as suggested in the 
referenced bug report. Works fine now :)

Peter Robinson