On 2003-06-09 11:50:21 -0500 Troy.A Johnson <troy.johnson at health.state.mn.us> wrote: > Hey Kent, > > I have read the same thing you have, and the commands you list seem > right to me, but they don't work for me either. The 'askpass' > programs are pretty simple, just putting the password on stdout, but > 'ssh' seems to be ignoring the existence of the variables it should > use to get this job done. > Maybe it is different for different distributions? This is RH7.3 with > OpenSSH_3.1p1, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, and OpenSSL 0x0090602f. You guys need ssh-agent. try adding the following to your .bashrc eval `ssh-agent -s` Or take a look at keychain (not the OSX keychain, the one written by Dan Robbins of Gentoo fame (find it on freshmeat) > > Can anyone get this to work? > > Troy > >>>> kent at structural-wood.com 06/09/03 11:16AM >>> > Hi, > > I'm trying to get ssh to always prompt for a password using the > graphical > > password widget. > > From my reading, it seems this should work. > > export SSH_ASKPASS=/usr/libexec/openssh/x11-ssh-askpass > export DISPLAY=vampir:0 > > ssh -n panshin > > Unfortunately I still get the text prompt > > kent at panshin's password: > > I've tried alternatives and googled away the morning, and I still > have had > no success. > > Anybody have any pithy advice? Relevant advice would be nice too :-) > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list