ssh-askpass

ssh-askpass for OS X. Works in (at least) 10.7+ (including El Capitan)

Used to accept (or deny) the use of the private key(s) added to the SSH authentication agent with ssh-add -c.

Installation

Homebrew

• Run:

  $ brew tap theseal/ssh-askpass
  $ brew install ssh-askpass
  

• Follow caveats

Without Homebrew

OS X Pre 10.11

$ sudo ln -s $PWD/ssh-askpass /usr/libexec/ssh-askpass

OS X 10.11+

• Disable SIP (rootless)

• Run:

  $ sudo mkdir -p /usr/X11R6/bin
  $ sudo ln -s $PWD/ssh-askpass /usr/X11R6/bin/ssh-askpass 
  

• Enable SIP (rootless)

Enabling keyboard navigation

For security reasons ssh-askpass defaults to cancel since it's too easy to press spacebar and accept a connection or other actions which might use ssh-keys. To make it easier to press OK:

• Go to System Preferences and then Keyboard.

OS X Pre 10.11

• Under the Keyboard tab, click on All controls.

OS X 10.11+

• Under the Shortcuts tab, click on All controls.

Now you can press ⇥+spacebar to press OK.

License

ISC license

Contributors

• theseal
• simmel