On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: > Steve Howie wrote: > > > Can't get it to work - set up the win-ssh-agent, ran the ssh command > > from a script after setting the DISPLAY and SSH_ASKPASS environment > > variables and SSH still prompted me for a password - no askpass window > > popped up. Any ideas?? > > > > Running on Windows XP Professional. > > > Script (as suggested by Alexander Gottwald): > > > > #!/bin/bash > > export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 > > export SSH_ASKPASS="/usr/bin/win-ssh-askpass.exe" > > ssh -f -X <host> -l username "/opt/SAS82/sas" > > I've done some test on it yesterday and it showed that the askpass program > is only executed when the ssh has no terminal. On linux I could start the > ssh from gvim and the it started x11-ssh-askpass. But on windows ssh was > always started in a console window. > > Maybe the run.exe utility might help. But I've never used it and have no > links and further information on it. run.exe will start programs without > console windows. Then ssh has no terminal and it must start win-ssh-askpass.
IIUC, that's exactly what the "setsid" command is intended to accomplish. You can also try using bash's "disown" builtin. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton