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| author | djm@openbsd.org <djm@openbsd.org> | 2020-07-15 01:57:01 +0200 |
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| committer | Darren Tucker <dtucker@dtucker.net> | 2020-07-15 07:08:10 +0200 |
| commit | aaa8b609a7b332be836cd9a3b782422254972777 (patch) | |
| tree | cb4167b3f06a11410d6b82976ddb375ed626abdc /ssh-add.1 | |
| parent | upstream: correct recently broken comments (diff) | |
| download | openssh-aaa8b609a7b332be836cd9a3b782422254972777.tar.xz openssh-aaa8b609a7b332be836cd9a3b782422254972777.zip | |
upstream: allow some additional control over the use of ssh-askpass
via $SSH_ASKPASS_REQUIRE, including force-enable/disable. bz#69 ok markus@
OpenBSD-Commit-ID: 3a1e6cbbf6241ddc4405c4246caa2c249f149eb2
Diffstat (limited to 'ssh-add.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | ssh-add.1 | 30 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 7 deletions
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: ssh-add.1,v 1.80 2020/06/26 05:04:07 djm Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: ssh-add.1,v 1.81 2020/07/14 23:57:01 djm Exp $ .\" .\" Author: Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi> .\" Copyright (c) 1995 Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>, Espoo, Finland @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ .\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF .\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: June 26 2020 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: July 14 2020 $ .Dt SSH-ADD 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ Lock the agent with a password. .El .Sh ENVIRONMENT .Bl -tag -width Ds -.It Ev "DISPLAY" and "SSH_ASKPASS" +.It Ev "DISPLAY", "SSH_ASKPASS" and "SSH_ASKPASS_REQUIRE" If .Nm needs a passphrase, it will read the passphrase from the current @@ -195,10 +195,26 @@ This is particularly useful when calling from a .Pa .xsession or related script. -(Note that on some machines it -may be necessary to redirect the input from -.Pa /dev/null -to make this work.) +.Pp +.Ev SSH_ASKPASS_REQUIRE +allows further control over the use of an askpass program. +If this variable is set to +.Dq never +then +.Nm +will never attempt to use one. +If it is set to +.Dq prefer , +then +.Nm +will prefer to use the askpass program instead of the TTY when requesting +passwords. +Finally, if the variable is set to +.Dq force , +then the askpass program will be used for all passphrase input regardless +of whether +.Ev DISPLAY +is set. .It Ev SSH_AUTH_SOCK Identifies the path of a .Ux Ns -domain |