random ssh keys (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ gnome-keyring

assistant: Work around horrible, terrible, very bad behavior of
gnome-keyring, by not storing special-purpose ssh keys in ~/.ssh/*.pub.

Apparently gnome-keyring apparently will load and indiscriminately use such
keys in some cases, even if they are not using any of the standard ssh key
names. Instead store the keys in ~/.ssh/annex/, which gnome-keyring will
not check.

Note that neither I nor #debian-devel were able to quite reproduce this
problem, but I believe it exists, and that this fixes it. And it certianly
won't hurt anything..

Assistant/Ssh.hs

@@ -160,11 +160,18 @@ genSshKeyPair = withTempDir "git-annex-keygen" $ \dir -> do
 {- Installs a ssh key pair, and sets up ssh config with a mangled hostname
  - that will enable use of the key. This way we avoid changing the user's
  - regular ssh experience at all. Returns a modified SshData containing the
- - mangled hostname. -}
+ - mangled hostname.
+ -
+ - Note that the key files are put in ~/.ssh/annex/, rather than directly
+ - in ssh because of an **INSANE** behavior of gnome-keyring: It loads
+ - ~/.ssh/*.pub, and uses them indiscriminately. But using this key
+ - for a normal login to the server will force git-annex-shell to run,
+ - and locks the user out. Luckily, it does not recurse into subdirectories.
+ -}
 setupSshKeyPair :: SshKeyPair -> SshData -> IO SshData
 setupSshKeyPair sshkeypair sshdata = do
 	sshdir <- sshDir
-	createDirectoryIfMissing True sshdir
+	createDirectoryIfMissing True $ parentDir $ sshdir </> sshprivkeyfile
 
 	unlessM (doesFileExist $ sshdir </> sshprivkeyfile) $ do
 		h <- fdToHandle =<<
@@ -178,7 +185,7 @@ setupSshKeyPair sshkeypair sshdata = do
 	setSshConfig sshdata
 		[ ("IdentityFile", "~/.ssh/" ++ sshprivkeyfile) ]
   where
-	sshprivkeyfile = "key." ++ mangleSshHostName sshdata
+	sshprivkeyfile = "annex" </> "key." ++ mangleSshHostName sshdata
 	sshpubkeyfile = sshprivkeyfile ++ ".pub"
 
 {- Setups up a ssh config with a mangled hostname.

debian/changelog

@@ -32,6 +32,12 @@ git-annex (4.20130406) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
     Thanks, guilhem for the patch.
   * Added per-remote annex-rsync-transport option.
     Thanks, guilhem for the patch.
+  * assistant: Work around horrible, terrible, very bad behavior of
+    gnome-keyring, by not storing special-purpose ssh keys in ~/.ssh/*.pub.
+    Apparently gnome-keyring apparently will load and indiscriminately use
+    such keys in some cases, even if they are not using any of the standard
+    ssh key names. Instead store the keys in ~/.ssh/annex/,
+    which gnome-keyring will not check.
 
  -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:24:15 -0400
 

doc/bugs/The_restricted_ssh_key_pair_makes_password_login___40__nearly__41___impossible.mdwn

@@ -18,4 +18,12 @@ git-annex version: 4.20130324, Ubuntu 11.04
 
 **Please provide any additional information below.**
 
-
+> [[done]]. Although I have not 100% reproduced this, I have seen 
+> enough of the source code to gnome-keyring to be pretty sure it's at
+> fault, and that my fix works.
+> 
+> If this is happening to you, you can fix it by making a `~/.ssh/annex/`
+> directory and moving `~/.ssh/key.annex*` to it. Then you'll need to edit
+> `~/.ssh/config` to use the new path to the key. And you'll need to run
+> `ssh-add -D` to clear out the bogus keys from the ssh agent (or log out
+> and back in). --[[Joey]]