NAME

       ssh-askpass-noinput - an ssh-askpass implementation for asking allow/deny questions

SYNOPSIS

       ssh-askpass-noinput text

DESCRIPTION

       ssh-askpass-noinput  is an implementation of ssh-askpass, which does not actually ask for a password; in‐
       stead, it only asks a binary (allow/deny) question and exits with 0 for allow and 1 for deny.

       It is not intended as a general replacement for ssh-askpass, but for special applications that don’t care
       about a passphrase.

OPTIONS

       As usual with ssh-askpass implementations, ssh-askpass-noinput only takes a single argument,  which  will
       be presented as the question.

BACKGROUND AND APPLICATIONS

       Some  programs (ssh-agent and ssh-agent-filter) use ssh-askpass to have users confirm actions without en‐
       tering a passphrase; ssh-agent does this when used via ssh-add’s -c option.  They do not indicate that it
       is a binary question (because in the classical ssh-agent invocation, there is no option to do this),  and
       expect  the  user  to ignore the text input and click “OK” or “Cancel”, whereupon they read the askpass’s
       exit status.

       With programs that are known to only ask  those  questions,  setting  SSH_ASKPASS=ssh-askpass-noinput  in
       their environment will make them use this particular implementation for their questions.  It should never
       be installed as /usr/bin/ssh-askpass.

FUTURE

       This  solution  is  obviously a hack, which is needed until a way is established and implemented for ssh-
       askpass to be used more flexibly.

SEE ALSO

       ssh-agent-filter(1), ssh-agent(1), ssh-askpass(1)

AUTHORS

       ssh-askpass-noinput was conceived by chrysn <chrysn@fsfe.org>.

       Both the program and this man page are free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under  the
       terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of
       the License, or (at your option) any later version.

AUTHORS

       chrysn <chrysn@fsfe.org>.

                                                   2013-10-26                              SSH-ASKPASS-NOINPUT()