On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 10:19:12AM -0600, Callum Lerwick wrote: > http://man.root.cz/1/gnome-ssh-askpass/ > > gnome-ssh-askpass will lock keyboard focus to its window, preventing > focus stealing and key logging attacks from other X clients. It also > aborts if it fails to gain a lock on the keyboard. Try starting two > copies of gnome-ssh-askpass at the same time, and see what happens: > > $ /usr/libexec/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass&/usr/libexec/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass > > Seems to me it's much preferable to use gnome-ssh-askpass if you're in > X, even in xterms. Note that the dialog in this case comes from gnome-keyring, and is not actually gnome-ssh-askpass. You can tell because gnome-ssh-askpass doesn't offer to store things in your keyring, and it isn't used when the process has access to a terminal device which it can use to prompt the user. Nalin -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
