ssh dialogue box.

[John Masters]

On 18:45 Sat 29 Nov     , David Restall - System Administrator wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> if I have an ssh key with a passphrase, whenever I use that key, a
> dialogue box pops up.  Why ?  What's wrong with asking me from the term
> I'm using ? Who's idea of policy is this ?  It's stupid and breaks the
> workflow up.  Is there any way of disabling this behaviour - apart from
> setting up my ssh keys without a passphrase.  8.10 BTW.
> 
> I thought of doing apt-get remove ssh-askpass but this wants to remove
> ubuntu-desktop which is a problem :-(
> 
> Does anybody think this is a good idea ?  Popping a dialogue box up
> could really break some expect scripts.
> 
> I fail to see the logic of this feature.  I really do, can somebody tell
> me in simple terms what it's supposed to achieve ?
> 
> As far as I can see, this is the curse of Debian - unnecessary tinkering
> with a system that works very well :-(.

I have an ssh-key with a passphrase, whenever I use that key NO dialogue
box pops up. Why? At the start of a session (which may be many months) I
ssh-add my key. 

Look at ssh-agent. Are you using ssh from a terminal? Set up properly,
ssh is seamless.

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Regards, John