Please type ‘yes’ or ‘no’:
I recently discovered a really nice feature where trying to connect to a new server using ssh/scp will display a GTK+ popup, asking you to confirm the identity if there’s no stdin (for example, when running ssh/scp as part of a custom command in MonoDevelop).
Features like these make me really happy, because it means that someone actually thought this through. So I answered the question (only 2 answers are valid), and couldn’t help but smile at what I saw.
No one will ever guess which answer I picked!
July 7th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Haha! Excellent post!
July 7th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
rofl!
July 7th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
that UI would probably be better with buttons Cancel and Connect, and a checkbox “This is a known host” or “Authorize connecting to host”, where the checkbox would make the Connect button enabled.
July 7th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
i think u said “noo” which means “really no”
July 7th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
hehe, nice
July 7th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Actually, wouldn’t most prompts like that process “nnn” (or “noo”, as Tayfun suggested, for that matter) as an valid answer (i.e. first letter in the string determines the result)? If you don’t feel like submitting a patch, call it a feature!
July 7th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
Ulrik - probably, but it’s not a very sophisticated UI. It’s just something that notices that ssh is asking for input, assumes it to be a password prompt, and displays an appropriate dialog.
Anders - not in this case. SSH requires the strings “yes” or “no”, it won’t accept abbreviations.
August 16th, 2008 at 2:40 am
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