Re: git-gui Error

["Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>]

Martin Koegler <mkoegler@auto.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> 1) SSH_ASKPASS (see ssh(1))
>     If ssh needs a passphrase, it will read the passphrase from the
>     current terminal if it was run from a terminal.  If ssh does not
>     have a terminal associated with it but DISPLAY and SSH_ASKPASS
>     are set, it will execute the program specified by SSH_ASKPASS
>     and open an X11 window to read the passphrase.  This is particu-
>     larly useful when calling ssh from a .Xsession or related
>     script.  (Note that on some machines it may be necessary to
>     redirect the input from /dev/null to make this work.)
> 
> This require, that a password helper is installed. One implementation
> is part of every linux distribution (openssh-askpass-gnome).

I had written a Tk based SSH_ASKPASS helper not to long ago,
and hoped it would work here.  It doesn't work on Cygwin for
anything except ssh-agent.  I'm not sure why.  I haven't tested
other platforms.
 
> 2) Simulate user (like http://websvn.kde.org/tags/KDE/3.4.3/kdebase/kioslave/fish/fish.cpp?rev=467549&view=auto)

Yea, that's a difficult one, and very error prone...

-- 
Shawn.