| Summary: | Allow 'authorize host' questions to be able to be answered via GUI app | ||||||
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| Product: | Portable OpenSSH | Reporter: | Bill Bumgarner <bbum> | ||||
| Component: | ssh | Assignee: | OpenSSH Bugzilla mailing list <openssh-bugs> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED FIXED | ||||||
| Severity: | enhancement | CC: | jmknoble | ||||
| Priority: | P2 | ||||||
| Version: | -current | ||||||
| Hardware: | Other | ||||||
| OS: | Other | ||||||
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Description
Bill Bumgarner
2002-01-16 16:19:39 AEDT
I like this idea - we could probably reuse most of the askpass code to obtain the answer (which should still IMO require the _typing_ of "yes"). Created attachment 10 [details]
like this?
It wouldn't be too difficult to massage x11-ssh-askpass to provide a real sort of "yes-or-no" functionality, as long as we all agree on how to tell ssh-askpass to "be a yes-or-no dialog instead of a passphrase dialog". Then again, xmessage works for that sort of thing already; a shell wrapper around it would be even easier.... The patch is nice and shorter too. The "yes"/"no" response won't be visible in the SSH_ASKPASS program, but I don't think this is a major problem. Perhaps we could arrange some standard way to tell the askpass to echo (cmdline arg?) CCing jmknoble@pobox.com as the author of x11-ssh-askpass oops - I failed to see that Jim was already reading this. I wouldn't want a click-for-accept-this-key dialog box. Forcing people to type "yes" has a hope of making them stop and think for a second or two about the validity of the key. Markus committed support for this a couple of days back and I merged it into portable last night. Open a seperate bugs if there are any issues with it. Mass change of RESOLVED bugs to CLOSED |