And kterm, tho a kde application does directly call and use bash, so no you cant use the kwallet to feed it the username and password. your best bet is to use public/private key pairs. http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2008/06/perform-ssh-and-scp-without-entering-password-on-openssh/
http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2008/11/3-steps-to-perform-ssh-login-without-password-using-ssh-keygen-ssh-copy-id/ a couple of links to get you going. Make sure you keep the private part of your pgp key on your computer and only send the public part out... Cheers Sam On April 17, 2014 Thursday 16:33:19 Anand Singh wrote: > You are correct, it needs to be a KDE application to use kwallet. > Luckily, SSH has its own methods to accomplish the same thing. You can > authenticate with a certificate instead of a password. > > https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/howto/ssh/public_key/#openssh > > Anand. > > On Apr 17, 2014 4:21 PM, "Lewko, Robert" <lew...@uleth.ca> wrote: > > Is it possible that to use kwallet to store and manage the > > key/passphrase for a ssh? > > > > In other words - what I want is to configure kwallet so that I enter my > > kwallet password when I login and then when I use ssh kwallet takes care > > of entering my passphrase into ksshaskpass without me having to enter it > > again? > > > > The best thing that I have been able to do is put a script into > > .kde/Autostart that calls keychain. > > > > It seems to me that getting kwallet to manage the passphrase would only be > > possible if there was a KDE ssh application? Has anyone looked into this? > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > clug-talk mailing list > > clug-talk@clug.ca > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
