On 2008.05.22 14:53:01 +0200, Alex Riesen wrote: > Björn Steinbrink, Wed, May 21, 2008 01:02:04 +0200: > > On 2008.05.21 00:31:58 +0200, Alex Riesen wrote: > > > Bj?rn Steinbrink, Mon, May 19, 2008 15:19:42 +0200: > > > > On 2008.05.19 14:48:14 +0400, Alexander Gladysh wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Any advice? I do want to input password for my key each time I use it. > > > > > > > > For a graphical tool, you might want to use something like > > > > gtk-led-askpass, which shows a window with a password prompt. SSH will > > > > make use of it if SSH_ASKPASS contains its path _and_ ssh is not started > > > > from a terminal. Unfortunately, the latter is probably not true for git > > > > gui most of the time. > > > > > > Redirect stdin from /dev/null > > > > Does that actually work for you? It didn't work for me, because ssh then > > simply goes and opens /dev/tty to ask for the password. > > > > $ ssh -V > > OpenSSH_4.7p1 Debian-10, OpenSSL 0.9.8g 19 Oct 2007 > > > > No :( I took this information from sshs manpage: > > SSH_ASKPASS If ssh needs a passphrase, it will read the > passphrase from the current terminal if it was run > from a terminal. If ssh does not have a terminal > associated with it but DISPLAY and SSH_ASKPASS are > set, it will execute the program specified by > SSH_ASKPASS and open an X11 window to read the > passphrase. This is particularly useful when call‐ > ing ssh from a .xsession or related script. (Note > that on some machines it may be necessary to redi‐ > rect the input from /dev/null to make this work.) Yeah, that got me trying the redirection, too. But the "If ssh does not have a terminal associated" part is actually what counts, it seems. Because ssh falls back to /dev/tty if stdin doesn't work. Guess the stdin redirect might just be required in some cases, where it would use /dev/stdin directly, so you force it to try /dev/tty and then use SSH_ASKPASS. Björn -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
