21729 – REQ: LinCVS use ssh-askpass, to avoid needing a console open

Bug 21729 - REQ: LinCVS use ssh-askpass, to avoid needing a console open

Summary: REQ: LinCVS use ssh-askpass, to avoid needing a console open

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Dylan Carlson (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2003-05-26 16:02 UTC by Graeme Humphries
Modified:	2004-07-25 20:02 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Graeme Humphries 2003-05-26 16:02:52 UTC

When using SSH to do CVS operations on a remote server, LinCVS only asks for a
password on the commandline. If LinCVS is run from the Gnome menu or similar,
there is no commandline visible to the user, so the program just stalls at the
first CVS request.

It'd be /really/ nice if there was *-ssh-askpass support in LinCVS, so that
you'd get a nice little dialogue every time it needs a password, and so you
wouldn't have to run it from a terminal.

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Dylan Carlson (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-07-25 20:02:18 UTC

This was added upstream to 1.3.0 or thereabouts, so, I assume this is fixed (I don't use LinCVS myself anymore).