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Re: Git GUI vs interactive post-commit hooks

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Björn Steinbrink <b.steinbrink@gmx.de>
Date
May 20, 2008, 23:02 UTC
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On 2008.05.21 00:31:58 +0200, Alex Riesen wrote:
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> Bj?rn Steinbrink, Mon, May 19, 2008 15:19:42 +0200:
> > On 2008.05.19 14:48:14 +0400, Alexander Gladysh wrote:
> > > 
> > > Any advice? I do want to input password for my key each time I use it.
> > 
> > For a graphical tool, you might want to use something like
> > gtk-led-askpass, which shows a window with a password prompt. SSH will
> > make use of it if SSH_ASKPASS contains its path _and_ ssh is not started
> > from a terminal. Unfortunately, the latter is probably not true for git
> > gui most of the time.
> 
> Redirect stdin from /dev/null

Does that actually work for you? It didn't work for me, because ssh then simply goes and opens /dev/tty to ask for the password.

$ ssh -V OpenSSH_4.7p1 Debian-10, OpenSSL 0.9.8g 19 Oct 2007

Björn
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  1. Alexander GladyshMay 19, 2008
  2. Björn SteinbrinkMay 19, 2008
  3. Alexander GladyshMay 19, 2008
  4. Björn SteinbrinkMay 19, 2008
  5. Alex RiesenMay 20, 2008
  6. Björn SteinbrinkMay 20, 2008
  7. Jeff KingMay 20, 2008
  8. Alex RiesenMay 22, 2008
  9. Björn SteinbrinkMay 22, 2008

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