How to change a stored password

Yuya Nishihara yuya at tcha.org
Tue Feb 23 13:34:05 UTC 2016


On Sun, 21 Feb 2016 17:19:15 +0100, Roland Schmitz wrote:
> Am Freitag, 19. Februar 2016, 23:50:57 schrieb Yuya Nishihara:
> > Can you investigate what command is handling the ssh password?
> > For example, you can ssh to another host, and check "ps auxf" when ssh
> > prompt is displayed.
> Within TortoiseHG i see:
> 
> % hg pull --verbose ssh://me@hg.code.sf.net/p/my_prj/code
> pulling from ssh://r-sch@hg.code.sf.net/p/req-scanner/code
> remote: Pass a valid window to KWallet::Wallet::openWallet().
> remote: Pass a valid window to KWallet::Wallet::openWallet().
> remote: Pass a valid window to KWallet::Wallet::openWallet().
> remote: Pass a valid window to KWallet::Wallet::openWallet().
> remote: Permission denied, please try again.
> remote: Pass a valid window to KWallet::Wallet::openWallet().
> remote: Permission denied, please try again.
> remote: Pass a valid window to KWallet::Wallet::openWallet().
> remote: Received disconnect from 216.34.181.156: 2: Too many authentication 
> failures for me
> remote: Disconnected from 216.34.181.156
> no suitable response from remote hg
> [command returned code 255 Sun Feb 21 17:14:26 2016]

So the program would be ksshaskpass. I don't know why you couldn't find your
password in KWallet, but you can try another graphical frontend. For example,

 1. install the X11 ssh-askpass
 2. run "SSH_ASKPASS=/usr/lib/ssh/x11-ssh-askpass thg"



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