How to get "Enter passphrase" on command line rather than GUI pop-up?

Chris Green cl at isbd.net
Tue Jan 2 05:37:56 AEDT 2024


On Mon, Jan 01, 2024 at 06:34:01PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> Setting SSH_ASKPASS_REQUIRE=never in the environment on my xubuntu
> 23.10 system doesn't seem to work.  I have set it:-
> 
>     chris$ env | grep SSH
>     SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/run/user/1000/keyring/ssh
>     SSH_ASKPASS_REQUIRE=never
>     chris$ 
> 
> But I still get the annoying GUI pop-up rather than being asked for
> the passphrase in the terminal window.  Is this a bug or am I doing
> something wrong?
> 
... and I running OpenSSH_9.3p1 Ubuntu-1ubuntu3.1, OpenSSL 3.0.10 1 Aug 2023


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Chris Green


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