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diff --git a/doc/man/tdesshaskpass.1 b/doc/man/tdesshaskpass.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1ab9232 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/man/tdesshaskpass.1 @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +.TH TDESSHASKPASS 1 +.SH NAME +tdesshaskpass \- prompts a user for a passphrase using TDE +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B tdesshaskpass +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B tdesshaskpass +is a TDE-based passphrase dialog for use with OpenSSH. +It is intended to be called by the +.BR ssh\-add (1) +program and not invoked directly. +It allows +.BR ssh\-add (1) +to obtain a passphrase from a user, even if not connected to a terminal +(assuming that an X display is available). +This happens automatically in the case where +.B ssh\-add +is invoked from one's +.B ~/.xsession +or as one of the TDE startup programs, for example. +.PP +In order to be called automatically by +.BR ssh\-add , +.B tdesshaskpass +should be installed as +.IR /usr/bin/ssh\-askpass . +.SH 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>. |