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On Mittwoch, 22. Januar 2003 15:38, Achim Bohnet wrote:
> > From the manpages:
> >
> > NAME
> >      ssh-add - adds RSA or DSA identities to the authentication agent
> > [...]
> > ENVIRONMENT
> >      DISPLAY and SSH_ASKPASS
> >              If ssh-add needs a passphrase, it will read the passphrase
> > from the current terminal if it was run from a terminal.  If ssh-add 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-add 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.)
> >
> > [...]
>
> ach@lost(0) ~ $ apt-cache search ssh-askpass
> ssh-askpass-gnome - under X, asks user for a passphrase for ssh-add
> ssh-askpass - under X, asks user for a passphrase for ssh-add
>
> > gnome-ssh-askpass just ask for a the ssh passphrase and on 'okay'
> > writes it to stdout + \n.  On cancel nothing is writen.
> >
> > So setting SSH_ASPASS after ssh-agent is running and before (or at the
> > top) /usr/bin/kde3 run ssh-add.   This way keybased assccess with sftp,  
> > ssh session in rest
>
> Maybe a
>
> $  cat > kde-ssh-askpass
> #!/bin/sh
> exec kdialog --password 'give me the mantra'
> ^D
>
> as another (/etc/)alternative for ssh-askpass  would also.
>
> There's only a suble difference:  On cancel gnome version
> return '' + retcode 0, kdialog returns "\n" and retcode 1.


Chris,

can you add this and fix your conflicts in arts, kdebase, kdegraphics, 
kdemultimedia please ?

Thanks,

Ralf
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