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OpenSSH Askpass Setup

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amoskvin edited this page Oct 12, 2012 · 2 revisions

razor-openssh-askpass is a helper application to handle SSH requests for username/password in the nice GUI environment. This module is not mandatory for common desktop usage but it's highly important for system administrators and/or developers. That's the reason why is the integration in RazorQt disabled by default.

At first you need to let know the system you want to use GUI. It's usually done by using the SSH_ASKPASS system environment variable. In our case it will be:

SSH_ASKPASS=razor-openssh-askpass

The best solution is to

  • run the razor-config-session
  • add new item into the Environment (Advanced): SSH_ASKPASS=razor-openssh-askpass

Warning: Of course it's possible to set SSH_ASKPASS in for example ~/.profile but you can make SSH unusable when you use the same account remotely from e.g. another SSH session! That's the reason why we recomend to use SSH_ASKPASS only in the razor-session.

If you want to register your keys on session startup add new item to Autostart tab of the razor-config-session. For example:

name: ssh-add
command: ssh-add
wait for system tray: false

Then just logout/login/enjoy

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