bugzilla-daemon at mindrot.org
2003-Dec-17 06:29 UTC
[Bug 618] askpass connect to ssh-agent?
http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=618
djm at mindrot.org changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Status|NEW |RESOLVED
Resolution| |WONTFIX
------- Additional Comments From djm at mindrot.org 2003-12-16 23:29 -------
The gnome-ssh-askpass is meant to be a very minimal program, that includes just
enough functionality to get the job done. Therefore, I'm not really
interested
in adding more features to it.
That being said, it is very simple code to modify yourself. There may be a
"market" for an enhanced version, if someone wanted to maintain it
(not me).
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bugzilla-daemon at mindrot.org
2003-Dec-17 14:54 UTC
[Bug 618] askpass connect to ssh-agent?
http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=618 ------- Additional Comments From jmknoble at pobox.com 2003-12-17 07:54 -------> It would be nice if the askpass program (I'm using the one for gnome > supplied with RedHat 9) would also have a button "ssh-add this > passphrase". > > Perhaps there might be some security concern for not implementing it, > but I couldn't think of any.[Note: I am the maintainer of x11-ssh-askpass.] How would ssh-askpass figure out which key you mean by a particular passphrase? It would be a better idea to either (a) use a different program to create a dialog for choosing the key(s) to add, and then call ssh-add for all of them (which would then automatically use ssh-askpass, assuming $DISPLAY is set and stdin is not a terminal); or (b) configure the file manager to "open" a key using ssh-add, so that you can then add the key using the familiar interface of the file manager. ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee.