ssh dialogue box.

[Brian McKee]

On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 18:45 +0000, 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 ?
> 

You can tell it store that password for the session, or forever, or
forget it - all via Seahorse.

Note that removing ubuntu-desktop doesn't actually remove anything -
it's a meta package that says 'you have to have all these packages
installed for it to be ubuntu-desktop'  Remove an item on the list and
it's not a complete 'ubuntu-desktop' anymore, but it's just a catagory.
To restate - it won't necessarily remove anything else.

I don't think it will break an expect script - I think it will recognize
it's running in that sort of an interface and not pop up the box.

All that said, I would guess you could turn it off too - poke around in
Seahorse and see what you find.

Brian
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