I have Ubuntu Gnome 14.04, up-to-date; nautilus and nautilus-open-terminal are installed and updated:

 [romano:~] % wajig status nautilus nautilus-open-terminal

Package                 Installed       Previous        Now             State

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nautilus                1:3.10.1-0ubuntu9.7 1:3.10.1-0ubuntu9.7 1:3.10.1-0ubuntu9.7 install

nautilus-open-terminal  0.20-1          0.20-1          0.20-1          install

I noticed that the ssh-derived commands in the terminals opened by the right-click "Open in terminal" from nautilus windows kept asking my passphrase; upon further investigations, it results that a normal shell, started with CTRL-ALT-T or with the dash, I have:

[romano:~] % env | grep -i ssh                           

SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/run/user/1153/keyring-S6rI11/ssh

while in the "open in terminal" shell I have no trace of that environment variable:

[romano:~/education … -SAP-135/Lab-8] % env | grep -i ssh

[romano:~/education … -SAP-135/Lab-8] 1 %

...and generally, environment variables are passed to this shell:

[romano:~/education … -SAP-135/Lab-8] 1 % env | wc -l      

70

Why is the SSH_AUTH_SOCK shell variable not passed down? Is it possible to avoid it?