NAME
ssh-askpass-fullscreen - A simple replacement for ssh-askpass written
with gtk2
SYNOPSIS
ssh-askpass-fullscreen
DESCRIPTION
This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the
original program does not have a manual page.
gnome-ssh-askpass is a GNOME-based passphrase dialog for use with
OpenSSH. It is intended to be called by the ssh-add(1) program and not
invoked directly. It allows ssh-add(1) to obtain a passphrase from a
user, even if not connected to a terminal (assuming that an X display
is available). This happens auto-matically in the case where ssh-add
is invoked from one’s ~/.xsession or as one of the GNOME startup
programs, for example.
In order to be called automatically by ssh-add, ssh-askpass-fullscreen
should be installed as /usr/bin/ssh-askpass
ssh-askpass-fullscreen is a program that...
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
The following environment variables are recognized:
GNOME_SSH_ASKPASS_GRAB_SERVER
Causes gnome-ssh-askpass to grab the X server
before asking for a passphrase.
GNOME_SSH_ASKPASS_GRAB_POINTER
Causes gnome-ssh-askpass to grab the mouse pointer
will be grabbed too.
These may have some benefit to security if you don’t trust your X
server. Keyboard is always grabbed.
SEE ALSO
ssh-add(1), ssh-askpass(1).
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Marco Presi (Zufus) <zufus@debian.org>,
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others) and it is
based on that for x11-ssh-askpass by Philip Hands and the one for
gnome-ssh-askpass by Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
May 8 , 2004