KSSHASKPASS(1)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, meet ksshaskpass — she prompts a user for a passphrase using KDE. that's the whole gig, and she ate. ✨

she lives in the KDE User's Manual, and honestly? iconic of her.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ksshaskpass

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

kshaskpass is a KDE-based passphrase dialog for use with OpenSSH. 🦋

she is intended to be called by ssh-add(1) and not invoked directly. like, do not just run her yourself, bestie, that's not her moment. 🙈

what she does is let ssh-add(1) obtain a passphrase from a user even if not connected to a terminal — assuming that an X display is available, of course. no X display, no vibes. 💅

and the way this happens automatically is in the case where ssh-add is invoked from one's ~/.xsession or as one of the KDE startup programs, for example. so she just shows up, does her thing, no drama. 🌈

ok so important part incoming 👑

in order to be called automatically by ssh-add, ksshaskpass should be installed as /usr/bin/ssh-askpass. that's the path, that's the assignment, no cap. 📌

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was written by Armin Berres <trigger@space-based.de>. 🫶

it was based on that for gnome-ssh-askpass by Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>. giving credit where credit is due, always. ✨

and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this one came from the ksshaskpass manual page in the KDE User's Manual, dated 2014-11-07, and the footer said KSSHASKPASS(1) — so yeah, she's been serving since 2014 and she's still booked and busy. 🎀👑💅