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 :-)
> 
> 
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