KWallet Askpass Program KWallet Askpass Program fetches your SSH passphrase from KWallet and passes it to ssh-add.
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KWallet Askpass Program fetches your SSH passphrase from KWallet and passes it to ssh-add. KWallet Askpass Program fetches your SSH passphrase from KWallet and passes it to ssh-add.During a normal KDE session one has to enter a lot of passwords. One password to open the session. A password is required to open the wallet. Passwords are required to sign emails. SSH sessions need passwords or one has to enter the passphrase to add the key to ssh-agent.This short article shows how to get rid of the neccessity to enter one of these passwords. If you are using ssh with ssh-agent, it is possible to store the passphrase for SSH in a KWallet wallet. Therefore only the password for opening the wallet needs to be supplied. Additionally you are able to use a really cryptic passphrase for your SSH key, because it is now entered by KWallet.I expect that you know what you do when you use the setup I describe here and that you know the security implications. If you do not know them do not use this setup.I assume that you have already created your ssh keys and that the passphrase for the private key is really strong. I also assume that you have ssh-agent running as this is the case for a modern distribution.

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