What does seahorse do?

[Chris G]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 12:14:43PM +0100, Knapp wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> > Having just changed my login password on my new xubuntu 8.10 system I
> > have discovered that there's an application called 'seahorse' lurking
> > in the background.
> >
> > After changing the password seahorse pops up a window when you log in
> > to X demanding that you enter a password - what it's asking for is the
> > *old* password which it has stashed away somewhere itself.
> >
> > What isn't clear though is what seahorse is for and reading the Help
> > is no 'help' at all, it just tells you how to drive the program, which
> > is fine in itself but doesn't help me at all in working out what it
> > does.
> >
> > Can anyone here help?  Does seahorse do the same as ssh-agent?  Does
> > it do it 'automagically' when you log in to X using your login password?
> > I've found the seahorse home page http://projects.gnome.org/seahorse/index.html
> > and that tells me just about nothing.  The best there is (on the
> > 'about' page) is:-
> >
> > With seahorse you can...
> >
> >    * Create and manage PGP keys
> >    * Create and manage SSH keys
> >    * Publish and retrive keys from key servers
> >    * Cache your passphrase so you don't have to keep typing it
> >    * Backup your keys and keyring
> >    * more...
> >
> >
> > It's rather a fundamental security thing to 'just happen' behind your
> > back!
> >
> > --
> > Chris Green
> 
> http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Security/Seahorse-3643.shtml
> 
That just repeats the lines I have quoted above I think.

-- 
Chris Green