Re: [gnome-love] Gnome SSH agent applet

[Geiregat Jonas <eniac sdf-eu org>]

George Karabin wrote:

> 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


Yes that would be a good idea, but why do you need all the parsing ?
Couldn't you just let the applet  drop down a selection list that starts 
up an xterm with ssh running in it  ?

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Geiregat Jonas