ssh private key password

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Sat Jan 10 00:56:17 UTC 2009


Callum Lerwick wrote:
> gnome-ssh-askpass will lock keyboard focus to its window, preventing
> focus stealing and key logging attacks from other X clients. It also
> aborts if it fails to gain a lock on the keyboard. Try starting two
> copies of gnome-ssh-askpass at the same time, and see what happens:

Interesting... ksshaskpass doesn't do anything like that. Not that I think
focus stealing is really a good solution for this problem anyway.

        Kevin Kofler




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