https://github.com/kde/ksshaskpass

ssh-add helper that uses KWallet and KPasswordDialog
https://github.com/kde/ksshaskpass

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ssh-add helper that uses KWallet and KPasswordDialog

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/kde/ksshaskpass
• Owner: KDE
• Created: 2015-09-18T13:21:34.000Z (about 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-11-11T03:17:02.000Z (3 days ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-11T04:23:22.953Z (3 days ago)
• Language: C++
• Homepage: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/ksshaskpass
• Size: 685 KB
• Stars: 52
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 5
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README
  • Changelog: ChangeLog
  • License: LICENSES/CC0-1.0.txt

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README

        
Ksshaskpass is a front-end for ssh-add which stores the password of the

sh key in KWallet.

Ksshaskpass is not meant to be executed directly, you need to tell

ssh-add about it. ssh-add will then call it if it is not associated

to a terminal.

From the ssh-add manpage:

/----------------

|  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.)

\----------------

This means you need to make sure to set the SSH_ASKPASS environment variable

to the path of ksshaskpass and then call ssh-add from your autostart scripts.

To add it to the KDE autostart sequence you could for example create an

executable script with the following content in ~/.kde/Autostart/ (or maybe

/.kde4/Autostart/, depending on the distribution).

/----------------

|#!/bin/sh

|

|SSH_ASKPASS=ksshaskpass ssh-add < /dev/null

\----------------