Hi,
I setup a first repository on local disk, it went fine. Next I tried setting up repo on my nas to clone the files. I installed git-annex on the NAS (it's armel arch) and created the repository via webapp, I entered the password once. Git-annex started syncing the remote repo and after few seconds password pop-up hell broke loose. I was flooded with password-prompt pop-up windows. The synchronization was continuing regardless of correctly/incorrectly entered passwords. What's more, these popups grab the keyboard and you cannot do (appropriate word) with your system.
I checked this topic: http://git-annex.branchable.com/forum/ssh_password/ and ssh config is in place on my computer and on the NAS.
What is causing this and how can I get rid of this?
What version of git-annex? Did more than one password prompt window somehow appear at the same time? What is doing the ssh password prompting, is it ssh-askpass, or something provided by your desktop environment?
What happens if you manually ssh from your computer to the NAS, using the special hostname that git-annex has configured (you can find this hostname in the
.git/config).ssh -vis generally a good way to track these problems down.hello,
I experience the same behaviour : once git-annex is started using the assistant, the ssh askpass window keeps asking me for a password. The repo is not reachable at this time (the server is down).
What's really annoying is that the askpass window is sometimes hidden behind other windows, but it keeps grabbing keyboard events: it looks like the keyboard "does not work" anymore. Hopefully pressing escape shuts closes askpass.
The askpass window still pop ups from time to time even once the assistant has been closed.
Running git-annex version 5.20141125 on Debian (amd64) on jessie.