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Re: ssh-askpass | kinit


Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Has anybody considered making it possible for kinit to get a password
> from ssh-askpass?
>
> That way it would be simple to have a graphical front end for the
> password prompt. e.g. with
>
> ssh-askpass "kerberos password" | kinit
>
> Unfortunately, kinit appears to bypass STDIN/STDOUT and read/write
> directly to/from /dev/tty.

In current heimdal there is an option --password-file that will read the
password from file, using the filename STDIN will read from stdin.

$ kinit --help 2>&1 | grep ^--password-file
--password-file=string                    read the password from a file


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