Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 21:35:34 -0500 (EST) From: Richard J Kuhns <rjk@grauel.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org> Cc: Richard J Kuhns <rjk@grauel.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: YA ssh question (ssh-askpass?) Message-ID: <14533.48246.835804.111800@localhost.grauel.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003071812001.99791-100000@hub.freebsd.org> References: <14533.29753.499155.780744@localhost.grauel.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003071812001.99791-100000@hub.freebsd.org>
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Kris Kennaway writes: > On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Richard J Kuhns wrote: > > > So does all this mean that I now have to start using ssh-add/ssh-agent? > > Not at all; it's there as an option for people who have > "secure" workstations and/or want single-signon for SSH. I often use > ssh-agent if I have lots of remote CVS commits to do consecutively, > e.g. do 'ssh-agent tcsh' and then ssh-add in the subshell, and exit when > I'm done. > > ssh-add will also only invoke ssh-askpass if invoked with no controlling > terminal, e.g. ssh-add < /dev/null or if called during the X login > process. Otherwise it uses the good old (internal) text prompt. > > Kris But then I'm back to my original question/problem: how to get ssh to ask for a password using ssh-askpass. I've looked through the code (a little); how would you feel about a patch to openssh/readpass.c that caused it to call ssh-askpass if there's no controlling tty but DISPLAY is set? -- 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
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