Re: Help! Openssh developed a gui?

From: Alexander Gran (alex@zodiac.dnsalias.org)
Date: 02/23/02 

From: Alexander Gran <alex@zodiac.dnsalias.org>
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 14:43:25 +0100

Richard E. Silverman wrote:

> % man ssh
> ...
> 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 calling ssh from a .Xsession or
> related script. (Note that on some machines it may be
> necessary to redirect the input from /dev/null to make this
> work.)

Hmm, this entry isn't part of my ssh manpage. Strange.

>> and is it possible to force ssh to open this window?
>
> I don't understand the question. You just did.

I was thinking of a command-line switch or something. But ok, this way
works also. Thank you!

regards
Alex 

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