On 25 Oct 1999, Kai Großjohann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
[...]
>> Also, a strange thing: I get prompted twice for the pw. The first
>> time, the prompt shows up in Emacs minibuff. The second time, ssh
>> evidently isn't attached to a tty and so it pops up a graphical
>> prompt.
>
> Hm? Graphical prompt from ssh? Never seen that! Can you give more
> detail on what happens?
'man ssh-askpass(1)' tells me that it's undocumented. Dang.
That's the piece of code that does it though. Try running it from a
terminal under X11 and see what happens. The command line is a prompt,
it spits the results out to stdout.
ssh(1) calls it when there is no stdin available IIRC.
Daniel
[...]
> Omigod. I think I'll use this one:
>
> "\\(%s\\)\\|\\(.*\\([pP]assword\\|[pP]assphrase.*\\): *$\\)"
>
> It seems clearer. Regexes are so hard to understand already that I
> think we shouldn't make it more complicated that absolutely necessary.
That works *much* better to my taste. I was about to offer the same :)
Daniel
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