ssh-agent hides sk "confirm user presence" message

Christian Weisgerber naddy at mips.inka.de
Tue Oct 17 01:19:17 AEDT 2023


Jochen Bern:

> *Which* ssh-askpass, OpenBSD's (with the "LEDs" underneath and "only" the
> usual range of X11 options), GNOME's (which doesn't react to "--help", "-h",
> or "-?", and doesn't seem to have a manpage, either), or KDE's (with a
> selection of possible options, including "--help", "--author", "--license",
> and Qt-specific ones)?
> 
> As far as I know, they would all require a (in the OP's use case, *second*)
> user interaction to close them again,

No, ssh-askpass closes automatically when you touch the authenticator.
This should be independent of the ssh-askpass implementation: After
reading the signature from the authenticator, ssh-agent sends a
SIGTERM to the ssh-askpass process.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy at mips.inka.de


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