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From: "Changsheng Jiang" <jiangzuoyan@gmail.com>
To: Henk <henk_westhuis@hotmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SSH_ASKPASS
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:13:26 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <eafc0afe0901100913w6a461605qf48d7eb7169d50f4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1231584934701-2137400.post@n2.nabble.com>

Why you don't setup a pair of keys, then you will not need to enter
passwords?

Yours Sincerely,
Changsheng Jiang

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 18:55, Henk <henk_westhuis@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to get "git push" to use git-gui--askpass to ask me for the
> password instead of promting me on the command promt. I need this because I
> start the "git push" command from code and there is no terminal where ssh
> can ask the user for a password. I tried writing the following tcl script
> that allmost is what I need:
>
> set env(SSH_ASKPASS) "C:/Program
> Files/Git/libexec/git-core/git-gui--askpass"
> exec ssh git@github.com
>
> Ssh will now ask me for the password using git-gui--askpass. But now the
> standardout is also shown in a dialog, and not on the standardout of the
> process. Looking at the git-gui scripts didn't help me, because I have
> absolutely zero experience in tcl.
>
> I also tried not using a tcl script, but setting SSH_ASKPASS as an
> environment variable in windows. This doesn't seem to work, ssh will still
> prompt me for a password.
>
> Anyone can help me write a script that asks for the password using
> SSH_ASKPASS but still prints the output on standardout?
>
> I use Windows btw.
>
> Henk
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-10 17:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-10 10:55 SSH_ASKPASS Henk
2009-01-10 17:13 ` Changsheng Jiang [this message]
2009-01-10 18:02 ` SSH_ASKPASS Alexander Gavrilov

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