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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2015-03-30 18:28:38 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2015-03-30 18:28:38 +0000
commitc3a275fcb3f421ab0d13150a9c81da9ea9e2bfde (patch)
tree10326460ea0afea4ec3f0d3375c5b5089f868068
parent541f3b912c47a0fb6b5fb9f1b1e2f5748dddee53 (diff)
ssh-askpass(1) is the default, overridden by SSH_ASKPASS;
diff originally from jiri b;
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/ssh/ssh-add.118
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/ssh/ssh_config.511
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/ssh/ssh-add.1 b/usr.bin/ssh/ssh-add.1
index 926456f0bfe..f02b595d51e 100644
--- a/usr.bin/ssh/ssh-add.1
+++ b/usr.bin/ssh/ssh-add.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: ssh-add.1,v 1.61 2014/12/21 22:27:56 djm Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ssh-add.1,v 1.62 2015/03/30 18:28:37 jmc 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: December 21 2014 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: March 30 2015 $
.Dt SSH-ADD 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -88,12 +88,11 @@ The options are as follows:
.It Fl c
Indicates that added identities should be subject to confirmation before
being used for authentication.
-Confirmation is performed by the
-.Ev SSH_ASKPASS
-program mentioned below.
-Successful confirmation is signaled by a zero exit status from the
-.Ev SSH_ASKPASS
-program, rather than text entered into the requester.
+Confirmation is performed by
+.Xr ssh-askpass 1 .
+Successful confirmation is signaled by a zero exit status from
+.Xr ssh-askpass 1 ,
+rather than text entered into the requester.
.It Fl D
Deletes all identities from the agent.
.It Fl d
@@ -156,6 +155,8 @@ and
.Ev SSH_ASKPASS
are set, it will execute the program specified by
.Ev SSH_ASKPASS
+(by default
+.Dq ssh-askpass )
and open an X11 window to read the passphrase.
This is particularly useful when calling
.Nm
@@ -197,6 +198,7 @@ is unable to contact the authentication agent.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr ssh 1 ,
.Xr ssh-agent 1 ,
+.Xr ssh-askpass 1 ,
.Xr ssh-keygen 1 ,
.Xr sshd 8
.Sh AUTHORS
diff --git a/usr.bin/ssh/ssh_config.5 b/usr.bin/ssh/ssh_config.5
index 140d0ba9815..22082049a3e 100644
--- a/usr.bin/ssh/ssh_config.5
+++ b/usr.bin/ssh/ssh_config.5
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@
.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.\" $OpenBSD: ssh_config.5,v 1.205 2015/02/20 22:17:21 djm Exp $
-.Dd $Mdocdate: February 20 2015 $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ssh_config.5,v 1.206 2015/03/30 18:28:37 jmc Exp $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: March 30 2015 $
.Dt SSH_CONFIG 5
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -484,11 +484,8 @@ if the control socket does not exist, or is not listening.
Setting this to
.Dq ask
will cause ssh
-to listen for control connections, but require confirmation using the
-.Ev SSH_ASKPASS
-program before they are accepted (see
-.Xr ssh-add 1
-for details).
+to listen for control connections, but require confirmation using
+.Xr ssh-askpass 1 .
If the
.Cm ControlPath
cannot be opened,