Comment 23 for bug 414743

2009/9/3 Robert Collins <email address hidden>:
>> 2- Hooking into openssh so it calls back to our uifactory to get the
>> password and other things.
>
> AFAIK openssh only allows you to do that if you are an agent: and this
> is something I whole heartedly approve of.

Right, we'd perhaps need to be a passthrough proxy for the real agent.
 This may be more trouble than it's worth. gpg documents a protocol
whereby you can provide quite a powerful gui but openssh less so, at
least in the man pages.

> On Modern linux machines, you will get a gui prompt for ssh connections
> already; we don't need to do anything special to make this work.

However, you don't get a gui message afaik for eg
 * failed to connect
 * unknown host key
 * wrong host key

We could handle some of these a bit better by parsing the output of ssh.

Anyhow, I've split this to bug 424069 for the unix issue, as it's
mostly separate.

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Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>