git suddenly started putting up a dialog instead of asking for my password on the command line

[Joel Rees]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 10:31 AM Tommy Trussell
<tommy.trussell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 7:52 AM Joel Rees <joel.rees at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone know whether current (Ubuntu 18.04) versions of ssh, gnupg, or git
>> have recently taken to putting up a modal dialog box for your
>> authentication tokens
>> when invoked by a git push from the command line?
>>
>[...]
>
> As far as I know, nothing has changed recently to make this happen more.
>[...]
> But it seems in general it's a GNOME thing. (Long discussions about it in the bugs linked here.)
>
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/1133198/disable-modal-dialog-to-insert-password
>
> It took a bit more digging, but I found a possible solution. Look to see if something has set the GIT_ASKPASS and/or SSH_ASKPASS environment variables, and if so, try unset on them.
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21422782/prevent-git-from-popping-up-gnome-password-box
>

echo $GIT_ASKPASS $SSH_ASKPASS

(nothing. Not set.)

[...]

I seem to be too old to chase bugs like these down any more. Keep
falling asleep at the terminal. Tomorrow's an early day delivering
mail again. Physical mail.

Forgive me if I don't follow some protocol here.

-- 
Joel Rees

http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/p/novels-i-am-writing.html