-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Good evening, On 03.11.2014 Johannes Kastl wrote: > I am trying to get ssh-add with the -c option to work. But I > always get this error: >> Agent admitted failure to sign using the key. Mark and Angel replied on and off the list, and both suggested that the SSH_ASKPASS variable is set wrong. I thought that these variables are for using *graphical* programs to ask for the passphrase. And on most of my machines, no X server is even installed. So I thought these variables are not necessary, and it does not matter it they are empty. As I replied to Angel, I would have thought that there is a fallback, but apparently this is not the case. Or it is not working. However, when I set SSH_ASKPASS to /usr/lib/ssh/ssh-askpass and the DISPLAY variable to 'foo', I still get the error. I noticed that on the one machine with the graphical gui, I get the prompt via kwallet (KDE's password safe), but it is enough to click OK to allow this request. But I had to unlock my password safe first. And the SSH_ASKPASS variable is set to /usr/lib/ssh/ssh-askpass on this machine. So maybe this is really just a prompt for machines with a running X server... Regards, Johannes - -- Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. (Terry Pratchett) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SeaMonkey - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlRZI2gACgkQzi3gQ/xETbIhDQCeLIoNjCQzwExdizHEbKGC22Jq zhUAnRakl3qIncNvWRaQRao3/f3J3K+/ =FK4z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
