It would be nice if the askpass program (I'm using the one for gnome supplied with RedHat 9) would also have a button "ssh-add this passphrase". Perhaps there might be some security concern for not implementing it, but I couldn't think of any.
The gnome-ssh-askpass is meant to be a very minimal program, that includes just enough functionality to get the job done. Therefore, I'm not really interested in adding more features to it. That being said, it is very simple code to modify yourself. There may be a "market" for an enhanced version, if someone wanted to maintain it (not me).
> It would be nice if the askpass program (I'm using the one for gnome > supplied with RedHat 9) would also have a button "ssh-add this > passphrase". > > Perhaps there might be some security concern for not implementing it, > but I couldn't think of any. [Note: I am the maintainer of x11-ssh-askpass.] How would ssh-askpass figure out which key you mean by a particular passphrase? It would be a better idea to either (a) use a different program to create a dialog for choosing the key(s) to add, and then call ssh-add for all of them (which would then automatically use ssh-askpass, assuming $DISPLAY is set and stdin is not a terminal); or (b) configure the file manager to "open" a key using ssh-add, so that you can then add the key using the familiar interface of the file manager.
Mass change of RESOLVED bugs to CLOSED