[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu SSH key management

[Dave Day]

I am a long time Mythtv user from Gentoo land, but I am
older now and have just recently switched all my machines
to Ubuntu (all but one Mythbuntu) to ease the burdens of
administration so I can enjoy my retirement in relative peace.

Mostly this has gone quite well and I am thrilled to have today
gotten my last Liva ECS front end up and running in about an hour
and a half.

So now that MythTV is humming along, I am turning my attention to
syncing and backing up the local customizations I make to
make my system admin life easier.

I am in the habit of having a powerful laptop near by in my comfy
chair and being able to visit each machine via ssh, using keychain
to give me pretty much password free access to all my machines.

However keychain does not seem to work on Mythbuntu for a reason
I have not yet come to fathom.

I notice that gnome-keyring-daemon is active however and wonder if
there is a conflict between it and keychain.

Ideally I would like for the ssh-agent/keychain arrangement I am used
to to work, but I could also try and adapt to the gnome-keychain-daemon
way of doing things if that would live more peacefully.

But in my quick tour of google search results I see that gnome-keyring
is perhaps being phased out in favor of something called Seahorse.

So, who is managing password free ssh logins among their various machines,
and can I hope to continue using keychain, or do you recommend
gnome-keyring-daemon, and if so, where do I start?

Thanks,
Dave Day