Unable to use ssh-agent with confirmation, when logged in on a virtual terminal

[Johannes Kastl]

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On 04.11.2014 Ángel González wrote:

> /usr/lib/ssh/ssh-askpass is a graphical application, so it won't
> work on the console.

I found that on openSUSE, openssh-askpass is described as 'A
passphrase dialog for OpenSSH and the X Window System'.

> DISPLAY=foo SSH_ASKPASS=/bin/true ssh-agent bash
>> ssh-add -c /path/to/keyfile ssh machine

This works. So it really is the missing application.

> This time it should work (works here). Using /bin/true means that
> it will always answer "yes", but enough to show it is working. You
> should instead make a program using getpass(2) or maybe a shell
> script that asks you.

I wonder why there is no such application delivered with openssh?
Surely someone more capable than me has used this feature before?

And, also: In the man page this whole SSH_ASKPASS/DISPLAY-thingy is
described as a way for X11-users and if no terminal is associated.

But in my case, all of this should not be necessary, as I am running
this from a terminal, and ssh just has to ask for the passphrase. As
it might ask for the passphrase when adding it to ssh-agent or when
ssh'ing without the agent.

> I think you are not using ssh-agent but Kwallet (it can also serve
> as ssh agent).

I'm manually starting ssh-agent on the konsole (KDE's terminal).

Regards,
Johannes
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