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plp

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Registered: 2013-01-24

Posts: 46

You need to install openssh-askpass or similar to connect to this host

Hi guys and gals,

I've been having trouble connecting to remote libvirt hosts using virt-manager. Trying to create a connection would fail with a popup saying:

You need to install openssh-askpass or similar to connect to this host.

This, even though openssh-askpass was already installed on my machine.

After some trial and error, I managed to fix it by linking the Seahorse's ssh-askpass binary to /usr/lib/ssh/ssh-askpass:

# ln -s /usr/lib/seahorse/ssh-askpass /usr/lib/ssh/ssh-askpass

I can't tell why this works, of course. However, it does. Should I file a bug report somewhere?

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Re: You need to install openssh-askpass or similar to connect to this host

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SS … sh-askpass

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plp

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Registered: 2013-01-24

Posts: 46

Re: You need to install openssh-askpass or similar to connect to this host

OK, I see. The Gnome version that comes with seahorse looks much better though, doesn't it?