A GTK4 SSH-askpass in Zig
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A GTK4 SSH-askpass in Zig
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#2Would love to see more projects using gtk and zig. Always nice to have another language option.
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#3Nice, I just use lxqt-openssh-askpass, but I am on X11. A lighter alternative (for single-text input) would be FLTK. Version 1.4 is really nice, with Wayland support, and they even draw custom window decorations on GNOME. Both Cairo and FLTK should be able to compile with -X; not sure, though, about the status of the Zig bindings.
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#4Love the tab title shenanigans when switching to and from the tab.
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#5These implementations really need to also include fingerprint sensor support
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#6These implementations really need to also include fingerprint sensor support
PAM really needs to be ravamped and support for (among other things) running multiple stacks in par@llel added. This way you could ask for a password OR a fingerprint
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#7I wrap `pinentry` (which is in the dependency trees of gnupg, pacman, gvfs, udisks2 and other software that you can de-facto depend on on desktops) inside my own simple askpass.
$ cat ~/scripts/pinentry-askpass
#!/usr/bin/env bash
pinentry It's also useful for agents to use sudo, you can write in instructions to tool-call `sudo -A` and you get a GUI popup to enter the password, and the agent continues from there. And since the "prompt" in pinentry can be customised... you can get the agent to set up a temporary askpass, which replaces "Password:" in the prompt with questions like "Can I delete this old log file in /var?" and you enter your password to authorise.
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#8this is realy good and helpfull information thanks.
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#9Whenever someone writes "with hand-written bindings" I read "will stop working 8 minutes after the next release"
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#10These implementations really need to also include fingerprint sensor support
Fingerprint is an authentication mechanism, not an authorization one.