How do I make use of SSH_ASKPASS?

Brian Millett bmillett at gmail.com
Sun Jan 27 18:36:46 UTC 2008


Colin Paul Adams escribío:
>>>>>> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Underwood <jonathan.underwood at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>     Brian Millett <bmillett at gmail.com> wrote:
>     >> Colin Paul Adams escribío: > I can't find out to make use of
>     >> this.
>     >> >
>     >> > It is set to /usr/libexec/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass, but I
>     >> still get > prompted for a password when I use ssh.
>     >> >
>     >> > I thought the prompt was only supposed to occur when I login
>     >> to GNOME.
>     >> 
>     >> You should look at using keychain.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> I put:
> 
> keychain --eval id_dsa
> 
> in my .bash_profile and it seems to work fine.
> 
>     Jonathan> But if you want better gnome integration, you should
>     Jonathan> look at seahorse
> 
> I found the website, and it does sound like you are right.
> 
> But I can't find instructions on how to use it.

I believe that all you need to do is launch it in your session as:

seahorse-agent

But if I'm wrong, there will be someone to quickly point it out.

-- 
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