Re: [gnome-love] Gnome SSH agent applet

[George Karabin <gkarabin pobox com>]

On Apr 6, 2004, at 7:35 AM, Sean Middleditch wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 10:25, Ross Golder wrote:
> > I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but if I have, here it is
> > again for the newbies...
> >
> > What we need, for those of you who work with SSH on a regular basis, 
> > is
> > a panel applet that does pretty much the same as the command-line
> > 'ssh-agent' program, but as a GUI applet.
>
> Actually, you could probably do all of this with just wrapping
> ssh-agent.  Rewriting that code would be foolish; you don't want to 
> have
> *two* places for security breakage to happen.  ssh-agent can already 
> use
> a GTK+ frontend for asking for passphrases, so pretty much all the
> applet would need to do is call ssh-agent with various options and 
> parse
> a little output here and there.


Perhaps this applet should (at the user's option) use gnome-keyring to 
make the password persistent?

- George


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