# KDE User's Manual

KSSHASKPASS

1

ksshaskpass

prompts a user for a passphrase using KDE

      ksshaskpass

## DESCRIPTION

kshaskpass is a KDE-based passphrase dialog for use with OpenSSH. It is intended to be called by the

ssh-add

1 program and not invoked directly. It allows

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 ssh-add is invoked from one's `~/.xsession` or as one of the KDE startup programs, for example.

In order to be called automatically by ssh-add, ksshaskpass should be installed as `/usr/bin/ssh-askpass`.

## 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>.