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NAME

       ssh-askpass-fullscreen - A simple replacement for ssh-askpass written with gtk2

SYNOPSIS

       ssh-askpass-fullscreen

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does
       not have a manual page.

       gnome-ssh-askpass is a GNOME-based passphrase dialog for use with OpenSSH. It is  intended
       to  be called by the ssh-add(1) program and not invoked directly.  It allows ssh-add(1) to
       obtain a passphrase from a user, even if not connected to a terminal (assuming that  an  X
       display  is  available).  This happens auto-matically in the case where ssh-add is invoked
       from one's ~/.xsession or as one of the GNOME startup programs, for example.

       In order to be called automatically by ssh-add, ssh-askpass-fullscreen should be installed
       as /usr/bin/ssh-askpass

       ssh-askpass-fullscreen is a program that...

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       The following environment variables are recognized:

       GNOME_SSH_ASKPASS_GRAB_SERVER
                            Causes  gnome-ssh-askpass  to  grab  the X server before asking for a
              passphrase.

       GNOME_SSH_ASKPASS_GRAB_POINTER
                            Causes gnome-ssh-askpass to grab the mouse pointer  will  be  grabbed
              too.

       These   may  have  some  benefit to security if you don't trust your X server. Keyboard is
       always grabbed.

       SEE ALSO
              ssh-add(1), ssh-askpass(1).

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Marco Presi (Zufus)  <zufus@debian.org>,  for  the  Debian
       GNU/Linux  system  (but may be used by others) and it is based on that for x11-ssh-askpass
       by Philip Hands and the one for gnome-ssh-askpass by Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>

                                           May 8 , 2004                 SSH-ASKPASS-FULLSCREEN(1)