Source: r-cran-askpass Maintainer: Debian R Packages Maintainers Uploaders: Andreas Tille Section: gnu-r Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-r Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), dh-r, r-base-dev, r-cran-sys Standards-Version: 4.5.0 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/r-cran-askpass Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/r-cran-askpass.git Homepage: https://cran.r-project.org/package=askpass Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: r-cran-askpass Architecture: any Depends: ${R:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} Recommends: ${R:Recommends} Suggests: ${R:Suggests} Description: safe password entry for GNU R, Git, and SSH 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.