Prob: openssh askpass DISPLAY Permission denied

Heiko Lehmann hlehmann at fh-lausitz.de
Sat Jul 20 01:38:28 EST 2002


Hallo!


I did upgrade openssh to version  OpenSSH_3.4p1.
But now I cant enter my password.
It seems to be because of the combination of askpass and DISPLAY-variable.
?? Which I must do to around the same functionality as with
   the    version 2.9 (without X11-ssh-askpass) ??


regards heiko

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- Test without ssh-askpass

lukas # ~ $ echo $DISPLAY
ksh: DISPLAY: unbound variable
lukas # ~ $ ssh -x -l admin 217.85.101.12
Permission denied, please try again.
Permission denied, please try again.
Permission denied (publickey,password).

lukas # ~ $ export DISPLAY=WORKSTATION:0
lukas # ~ $ ssh -x -l admin 217.85.101.12
ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/local/libexec/ssh-askpass): No 
such file or directory

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- Test with ssh-askpass
## cp veryoldcommercialssh-2.4/ssh-askpass /usr/local/libexec
lukas # ~ $ ssh -x -l admin 217.85.101.12
Permission denied, please try again.
Permission denied, please try again.
Permission denied (publickey,password).
lukas # ~ $ echo $DISPLAY
ksh: DISPLAY: unbound variable

lukas # ~ $ export DISPLAY=WORKSTATION:0
lukas # ~ $ ssh -x -l admin 217.85.101.12
## open window to enter passort

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