Comments on: SSH agent confirmation http://blogs.freebsdish.org/thompsa/2008/12/19/ssh-agent-confirmation/ Just another FreeBSD Committers Blogs weblog Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:02:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Robin Green http://blogs.freebsdish.org/thompsa/2008/12/19/ssh-agent-confirmation/comment-page-1/#comment-1299 Robin Green Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:02:10 +0000 http://blogs.freebsdish.org/thompsa/?p=6#comment-1299 In Fedora Linux, the ssh-agent is started for an X session in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc-common, which means that to set the SSK_ASKPASS variable, you can set it in ~/.profile (not to be confused with ~/.bash_profile!)

I used the following script there, since I’m a KDE person:

#! /bin/bash -eup
exec kdialog –warningyesno ‘Use SSH key?’

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