ssh private key password

[Jerry Amundson]

On 1/9/09, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Jerry Amundson wrote:
>> On 1/8/09, Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 23:42 +0100, nodata wrote:
>>>> No, I'm just getting annoyed that a GUI is popping up when I am using a
>>>> command line app. Not sure of the point of it, it seems counter
>>>> intuitive.
>>> If you don't want this, you can turn it off with
>>> gconftool-2 -s -t bool /apps/gnome-keyting/daemon-components/ssh false
>>
>> Users, naturally, would not "want this" - it's intrusive and
>> completely unnecessary. In the Windows world, IT staff would be be
>> bombarded with virus warnings.
>>
>> Please, make "false" the default.
>
> You don't speak on my behalf, please. I do prefer this as a user.

I stand corrected. I hope, no matter what, that the process stands
exactly the way it is.
In fact, I hope more and more command line tools add this GUI pop-up
feature. It's awesome.

jerry