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gnome-ssh-askpass3
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The ssh-askpass is a generic executable name for many packages, with similar names, that provide a interactive X service to grab password for packages requiring administrative privileges to be run. It prompts the user with a window box where the necessary password can be inserted. Here, we choose Damien Miller's package distributed in the OpenSSH tarball.
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Download (HTTP): https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/openssh-9.9p1.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 1893c9b712eb8c55ec2d5146e7323b92
Download size: 1.8 MB
Estimated disk space required: 10 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU
GTK+-3.24.43, Sudo-1.9.16 (runtime), Xorg Libraries, and a graphical environment (runtime)
Install ssh-askpass by running the following commands:
cd contrib && make gnome-ssh-askpass3
Now, as the root
user:
install -v -d -m755 /usr/libexec/openssh/contrib && install -v -m755 gnome-ssh-askpass3 /usr/libexec/openssh/contrib && ln -sv -f contrib/gnome-ssh-askpass3 /usr/libexec/openssh/ssh-askpass
The use of /usr/libexec/openssh/contrib and a symlink is justified by the eventual necessity of a different program for that service.
As the root
user, configure
Sudo-1.9.16 to use ssh-askpass:
cat >> /etc/sudo.conf << "EOF" &&
# Path to askpass helper program
Path askpass /usr/libexec/openssh/ssh-askpass
EOF
chmod -v 0644 /etc/sudo.conf
If a given graphical <application> requires administrative privileges, use sudo -A <application> from an x-terminal, from a Window Manager menu and/or replace "Exec=<application> ..." by "Exec=sudo -A <application> ..." in the <application>.desktop file.
gnome-ssh-askpass3
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