remembering passwords on a non-GUI server

[Bo Berglund]

On Sat, 04 Feb 2023 23:42:44 +1100, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:

>If I try to connect using the AWS key, I am prompted for the passphrase
>every time, but I am prompted by ssh.
>
>If I try to connect using my own key, I am prompted *by my GUI*, I
>guess Seahorse? to enter the passphrase, but only the first time.
>

This seems similar to the problems I am having with subversion on some Linux
boxes (not all Ubuntu). When I am working remotely on them and issue a
subversion command like a checkout or similar towards a server which I have
connected to before this happens:

The terminal command seems to stall completely and I could not understand why
until I by accident had the desktop also open (via VNC) and lo-and-behold!

When I issue the command *in a terminal via ssh* the stupid system pops up a
login prompt box *in the GUI*, which is *not* from where the command originated,
even close!!!

Why can't these dialogs always use the window where the command originated from?

(I am almost exclusively working on them via ssh terminals...)


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Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden