From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 7 13:27:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from moran.grauel.com (usr1-33.mintel.net [63.81.123.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4C7D37B74D; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 13:27:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rjk@moran.grauel.com) Received: (from rjk@localhost) by moran.grauel.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA05231; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 16:27:21 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from rjk) From: Richard J Kuhns MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14533.29753.499155.780744@localhost.grauel.com> Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 16:27:21 -0500 (EST) To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Richard J Kuhns , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: YA ssh question (ssh-askpass?) In-Reply-To: References: <14533.13881.134031.173029@localhost.grauel.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 8) "Bryce Canyon" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kris Kennaway writes: > On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Richard J Kuhns wrote: > > > I've installed a Tcl/Tk version of ssh-askpass in /usr/local/bin (which > > works by itself; I've tried it). I've also set SSH_ASKPASS_ENV to > > /usr/local/bin/ssh-askpass, but it hasn't made any difference. > > There's an X11 version in /usr/ports/security/openssh-askpass, but it > should probably work with other "equivalent" versions. By default it looks > for it in /usr/X11R6/bin/ssh-askpass (compile-time define), but can be > overridden using the SSH_ASKPATH environment variable. This is documented > in the ssh-add(1) manpage :-) > > Kris So does all this mean that I now have to start using ssh-add/ssh-agent? Does that actually buy me anything? I was under the impression that ssh-agent was there to allow you to enter your passphrase once, and then not have to do it again that session. I *don't* want to do that; when I'm on-site, I *want* to be prompted for my password when I attempt to commit changes to a file (and I work with multiple repositories). Thanks... -- Richard Kuhns rjk@grauel.com PO Box 6249 Tel: (765)477-6000 \ 100 Sawmill Road x319 Lafayette, IN 47903 (800)489-4891 / To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message