Xaskpass

Xaskpass is a lightweight passphrase dialog for X11 with extensive configuration options that is implemented without relying on heavy GUI libraries. It aims to be a successor to the similar but now old x11-ssh-askpass by preserving its fast startup time while modernizing some features such as fonts. It also tries to make sure the password stays in the memory for the shortest time.

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Building

If everything works right, a cargo build command should suffice:

cargo build --release --locked

Otherwise make sure rustc is 1.45+ and you have the following C libraries installed:

• libxcb >= 1.12
• libxkbcommon
• libxkbcommon-x11
• libclang
• cairo
• pango

For example in Arch Linux you can run:

pacman -S libxkbcommon libxkbcommon-x11 libxcb pango cairo clang

Installation

You can for example inform ssh or sudo to use xaskpass by setting SSH_ASKPASS=/path/to/xaskpass or SUDO_ASKPASS (and using sudo -A) respectively.

Configuration

Xaskpass reads configuration file from $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/xaskpass/xaskpass.toml. A default configuration file with comments can be found here.

More help

See xaskpass --help and the comments in the default configuration file.

Development

You can create directory pregen to speed up build.rs by letting it save the generated bindings there.

License

Xaskpass is released under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

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