142315 – Keychain Error: Unable to use "ps" to scan for ssh-agent processes

Bug 142315 - Keychain Error: Unable to use "ps" to scan for ssh-agent processes

Summary: Keychain Error: Unable to use "ps" to scan for ssh-agent processes

Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Hosted Projects
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Keychain (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Other

Importance:	High major (vote)
Assignee:	Keychain Team

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Reported:	2006-07-31 12:40 UTC by Tausif
Modified:	2006-09-08 14:44 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Tausif 2006-07-31 12:40:31 UTC

I installed keychain on Solaris as root and it works fine. But when I try running keychain as any other user I get the following output:

KeyChain 2.6.2; http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/keychain/
Copyright 2002-2004 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL

 * Error: Unable to use "ps" to scan for ssh-agent processes
 * Error: Please report to agriffis@gentoo.org via http://bugs.gentoo.org

Comment 1 Tausif 2006-07-31 13:44:57 UTC

From the source code I can see its failing on this line:

     ps -u `whoami` -f >/dev/null 2>&1

I think this problem only occurs for usernames which are greater than 10 characters long.

Comment 2 Tausif 2006-08-04 13:48:14 UTC

Is there a way to get around the long username problem?

Comment 3 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-09-08 14:44:17 UTC

Thanks for tracking down the location.  I don't have access to Solaris, so you'll have to monkey around and see if you can get something to work, then report back.