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