SSH login with ksshaskpass: Cancel does not work

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Executing a command with ssh open ksshaskpass. However it keeps popping up after clicking cancel.

After 3 tries, With either OK or Cancel the returned error message does not make sense for most end users.


ksshaskpass(12662)/kdeui (Wallet): The kwalletd service has been disabled 
ksshaskpass(12662)/kdeui (Wallet): The kwalletd service has been disabled 
ksshaskpass(12662)/kdeui (Wallet): The kwalletd service has been disabled 
ksshaskpass(12662)/kdeui (Wallet): The kwalletd service has been disabled 
ksshaskpass(12662)/kdeui (Wallet): The kwalletd service has been disabled 
ksshaskpass(12662)/kdeui (Wallet): The kwalletd service has been disabled 
Permission denied (publickey, keyboard-interactive)

So in affect, Cancel is indistinguishable from Ok.

Clicking cancel it should not ask for the password again, but just close (without any error message).
Perhaps this is a bug with ksshaskpass.

Using the standard KDE that comes with openSUSE 13.2

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I’m not sure that I understand the issue.

“ksshaskpass” does two things:
1: it requests a password for the user on behalf of openssh;
2: it offers to save that password in kdewallet.

If kdewallet is disabled, I would expect that to interfere with the second of those. But it is still supposed to request the password that openssh wants.

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The problem is clicking cancel does not work. It is the same as clicking OK without entering a password.
Cancel is cancel and it should close and not pop up again. After 3 times without supply a password the error message I posted in OT was shown.

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I’m guessing that “Cancel” works perfectly.

That is to say, on “Cancel”, ksshaskpass goes away and does not pop up again.

But there’s still a running openssh process. And it still wants that password. So it starts a new “ksshaskpass” process to request it.

I’m not sure what you are doing. For me, the “ksshaskpass” shows up when I use “ssh-add” to add a public key to ssh-agent, as in

ssh-add keyid < /dev/null

If I don’t want to give the key, then I don’t run “ssh-add”, or I run that command without the I/O redirection so that it can prompt me at the terminal.