From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:18:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG/RFC git-gui] password for push/pull in case of git+ssh://repo
Message-ID: <20071206191812.GA12006@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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