From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Ivo Alxneit <ivo.alxneit@psi.ch>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG/RFC git-gui] password for push/pull in case of git+ssh://repo
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 14:18:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071206191812.GA12006@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1196951517.3294.24.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 03:31:57PM +0100, Ivo Alxneit wrote:
> when i use git-gui (0.9.0) to push/pull to/from a git+ssh://repo i have
> to supply my password to ssh. i get the password prompt from ssh on the
> controlling shell. as i often use several shells and git-gui might run
> in the background it is rather bothering to find the correct shell where
> ssh expects the password. could this be changed (in a safe way) in
> git-gui e.g. like pinentry pops up a window when gpg is used to sign
> emails?
IIRC, ssh will run the 'ssh-askpass' program if DISPLAY is set and there
is no tty available, so git-gui should be able to set that up (or you
probably can yourself by simply backgrounding git-gui and closing the
terminal).
-Peff
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-06 19:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-06 14:31 [BUG/RFC git-gui] password for push/pull in case of git+ssh://repo Ivo Alxneit
2007-12-06 17:11 ` Thomas Harning
2007-12-07 8:57 ` [BUG/RFC git-gui] password for push/pull in case ofgit+ssh://repo Alxneit-Kamber Ivo
2007-12-06 19:18 ` Jeff King [this message]
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