BSD Ports

security/R-askpass 1.2.1 NetBSD

Safe password entry for R, Git, and SSH

System
NetBSD
Repository
pkgsrc
Maintainer
[email protected]
License
mit
Categories
security, math, R
Package size
24.9 KiB, 31.1 KiB installed

Description

Cross-platform utilities for prompting the user for credentials or a passphrase, for example to authenticate with a server or read a protected key. Includes native programs for MacOS and Windows, hence no 'tcltk' is required. Password entry can be invoked in two different ways: directly from R via the askpass() function, or indirectly as password-entry back-end for 'ssh-agent' or 'git-credential' via the SSH_ASKPASS and GIT_ASKPASS environment variables. Thereby the user can be prompted for credentials or a passphrase if needed when R calls out to git or ssh.

Install

Binary package:

pkgin install R-askpass

From pkgsrc:

cd /usr/pkgsrc/security/R-askpass && make install clean

Dependencies

Run dependencies 2