security/R-cran-askpass 1.2.1

Safe Password Entry for R, Git, and SSH

Repository: FreeBSD ports
Maintainer: [email protected]
Last update: 2026-09-18
Commit: ce2322be51
License: MIT
Categories: security
Package size: 23.9 KiB, 28.7 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

As a binary package — by origin, or by package name:

pkg install security/R-cran-askpass
pkg install R-cran-askpass

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/security/R-cran-askpass/ && make install clean

To depend on this port in another port's Makefile:

RUN_DEPENDS=	R-cran-askpass>0:security/R-cran-askpass

Packages

The version each package repository carries. “-” means the repository builds no package of it, “n/a” that there is no such repository.

Repository	aarch64	amd64	armv6	armv7	i386
FreeBSD:14:latest	1.2.1	1.2.1	-	1.2.1	1.2.1
FreeBSD:14:quarterly	1.2.1	1.2.1	n/a	1.2.1	1.2.1
FreeBSD:15:latest	1.2.1	1.2.1	n/a	1.2.1	1.2.1
FreeBSD:15:quarterly	1.2.1	1.2.1	n/a	n/a	n/a
FreeBSD:16:latest	1.2.1	1.2.1	n/a	n/a	n/a
FreeBSD:16:quarterly	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

Dependencies

As this port's Makefile names them.

Runtime 1

R-cran-sys>=2.1 : devel/R-cran-sys

The full lists below include those, and their dependencies in turn.

All build dependencies 86

All run dependencies 87

Configuration

No options to configure.

USES: cran:auto-plist,compiles
Service scripts: none

Files

distinfo 1

File	Size	SHA256
askpass_1.2.1.tar.gz	6058	6c2106a74c44a748f2cea795d9686e27a0058a90debcfd8558b62b06aec0c7dd

File

Size

SHA256

askpass_1.2.1.tar.gz

6058

6c2106a74c44a748f2cea795d9686e27a0058a90debcfd8558b62b06aec0c7dd

Commit history 1

Date Commit Credits Log message

Date	Commit	Credits	Log message
2026-09-18	`ce2322be51`	Devin Teske	*Update R-cran- WWW to modern URL** Old R-cran-* ports have https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/${PORTNAME} New R-cran-* ports have https://cran.r-project.org/package=${PORTNAME} Replace all the old WWW URLs with new WWW URLs Reviewed by: fuz Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D59714

2026-09-18

ce2322be51

Devin Teske

Update R-cran-* WWW to modern URL

Old R-cran-* ports have https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/${PORTNAME} New R-cran-* ports have https://cran.r-project.org/package=${PORTNAME} Replace all the old WWW URLs with new WWW URLs Reviewed by: fuz Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D59714