[Bug 618] askpass connect to ssh-agent?

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2003-12-17T14:54:58Z

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.



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