Free ssh askpass keyring software for linux

kaskpass is a ssh-askpass replacement for Kde. In add, it allows use of kwalletd to manage your passphrase(s).

See ssh man pages for more information about ssh system, ssh keys, ssh-agent and ssh-askpass.

kaskpass is written in ruby. It depends of ruby interpreter, libkorundum and kwallet. kaskpass is packaged to be installed in /usr/bin, but you can easily use it from your home directory.

Installation is same than ssh-askpass or ssh-askpass-gnome. One of convenient way is to copy kaskpass.desktop in your ~/.kde/Autostart:

cp /usr/share/doc/kaskpass/kaskpass.desktop ~/.kde/Autostart

This is only a beta version. There are some bugs to fix. Especially, I dont insure security of kaskpass. Please report all bug or improvements need.

ToDo:

- This is only beta version. There are some bugs to fix. Especialy, I dont garanty security of kaskpass. Please report all bug or improvements.
- Write manpage
- Translate it in other languages
- Add a systray icon to block acces to your ssh-agent
- Merge previous behaviour in kwalletd (as plugin for exemple)
- Write instructions for other distribution than debian

SSH Rootkit is a patch for latest version of SSH 1.2 to enable "rootkit" features like incoming/outgoing password logging, "global password" to allow login into any account using a pre-defined password.
Adds options to SSH configure script to enable rootkit features. Script kiddie dream!
WARNING: If configure fails on your system for some reason, re-run autoheader / autoconf in the ssh dir after patching.
WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
PLEASE READ THE SECTION ABOUT SETTING FILE MODES FOR THE
USERNAME/PASSWORD LOG FILE!!! IF YOU DONT, SSH ROOTKIT
WILL NOT WORK!!! IF I GET ANY EMAIL ABOUT "SIGNAL 11"
WHEN RUNNING SSH, I WILL IGNORE IT!
WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
NOTICE: This version includes patches from these people: Zelea, spwn.
NOTICE: Setting file modes on the logfile PLEASE make sure that your selected log file (--enable-ssh-log=whatever) is set to mode 666 (read/write by all) its extremely important to do this, because otherwise ssh will not be able to fopen() the log file, and will die with sig11. No, there is not an easy way to make it open the file while its still root. So, to summarize this:
# chmod 666 /wherever/your/log/file/is/.logfile
If you dont do this, dont come crying to me after the admin finds you.
Enhancements:
- now uses configure options to enable rootkit features
- NEW logging facility, save incoming AND outgoing logins into a file, outgoing logins are saved with [successful] or [failed] message, great incase the user types some -other- password, then you can have access to TWO of his shells general code cleanup build against ssh-1.2.27
- corrected a bug that prevented wtmp/utmp login when RSA authentication and .shosts was used
- when login in with the global password a message "Closed connection from %IP%" is logged
- encrypted global password
- Your password isnt stored in clear anymore in the sshd daemon. Only the MD5 hash of your password is. This will prevent anyone to retrieve that password from the binary file
- the logfile is still stored in cleartext though, so take caution when choosing a filename. Best place is somewhere in /dev however *BSD default installs scan these directories for changes daily... /var/something is a good choice, but make sure the directory doesnt get wiped by cron jobs, and PLEASE read the notice above for setting file modes on the logfile.

cxSSHAdmin is a menu (ncurses with dialog) based utility to perform various administration tasks via SSH.
Main features:
- The ability to login to a selected host from a list
- Ability to execute one command on multiple hosts from a list
- Enable password-less access to hosts, using ssh keys.
- Automatically scan the subnet, and generates a hosts list
TODO/Bugs/etc:
- Redirect command output on multiple hosts to email if the user wants it.
- Run command on multiple hosts in *paralell* instead of the current serial way..
- The network scanning progressbar doesnt seem very linear.. I might fix this in the future..
- Ability to tunnel into a firewalled network and perform login/commands on remote hosts

zssh interactively transfers files to a remote machine while using the secure shell.
It is intended to be a convenient alternative to scp, allowing to transfer files without having to open another session and re-authenticate oneself.
zssh is an interactive wrapper for ssh used to switch the ssh connection between the remote shell and file transfers.
Files are transferred through the zmodem protocol, using the rz and sz commands.
Enhancements:
- now compiles with readline v4.2
- works on MacOS X
config:
- detect readline headers
- fixed configure.in bug (-ltermcap not needed in AC_CHECK_LIB)

Autossh is a program to monitor and automatically reestablish SSH connections. Autossh is similar to rstunnel (Reliable SSH Tunnel), however, it is implemented in C, and is easier to set up and use, especially for connections to multiple hosts.
Autossh has been compiled and tested on OpenBSD, Linux, and Solaris, and should run without needing changes on FreeBSD and NetBSD.
Main features:
- autossh is a program to start a copy of ssh and monitor it, restarting it as necessary should it die or stop passing traffic. The idea is from rstunnel (Reliable SSH Tunnel), but implemented in C.
- The authors view is that it is not as fiddly as rstunnel to get to work.
- Connection monitoring using a loop of port forwardings or a remote echo service.
- Backs off on rate of connection attempts when experiencing rapid failures such as connection refused.
- Compiled and tested on OpenBSD, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, Cygwin, and AIX; should work on other BSDs.
- Freeware.
Enhancements:
- This minor release fixes some bugs in the Makefile and a bug when creating PID files.