Sending envvars via ssh agent protocol

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Mon Sep 13 16:48:39 AEST 2021


On Sat, 11 Sep 2021 17:01, Peter Stuge said:

> x11-ssh-askpass prompts wherever ssh-agent was started.

That is exactly what gpg-agent does for his ssh-agent functionality.
Works for many people but fails as soon as you use an X-server to login
to your work box (in my case a laptop).  Thus you either need to restart
(ssh|gpg)-agent or you send the current set of envvars always to the
agent.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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