On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 11:16:27 +0000 Colin Paul Adams <colin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I can't find out to make use of this. > > It is set to /usr/libexec/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass, but I still get > prompted for a password when I use ssh. > > I thought the prompt was only supposed to occur when I login to GNOME. SSH_ASKPASS is merely the name of the program that the ssh tools will invoke in order to prompt you for a password (and they may not use it if there is a tty they can ask on instead - I forget what the default it). If you are looking for the tool that will remember your passwords and not prompt you a second time, you are looking for ssh-agent, but it is important to know that the agent only remembers public keys, not passwords, so if you don't have public key authorization setup, you are still gonna get a password prompt. You can load public keys into ssh-agent using ssh-add, so I have things setup with a few shell scripts that use ssh-add -l to find out if the key is loaded, and if it isn't loaded, uses ssh-add and the askpass program to get it loaded, then invokes ssh. That way I only get prompted once per session.
