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GNOME keyring SSH agent => sign_and_send_pubkey: signing failed: agent refused operation

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From: Henk Katerberg <henk.katerberg <at> verum.com>
To: "bug-guix <at> gnu.org" <bug-guix <at> gnu.org>
Subject: GNOME keyring SSH agent => sign_and_send_pubkey: signing failed:
 agent refused operation
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 08:51:41 +0000

On GuixSD running Gnome: the command 'ssh <remote>' results in error
  sign_and_send_pubkey: signing failed: agent refused operation
and then falls back to password authentication.

(Work-around is to manually start the openssh agent 'eval $(ssh-agent)' after which 'ssh <remote>' is successfull. From this I conclude that the key pair used and the .ssh/config entry for <remote> are OK.)

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