Kris Kennaway writes:
> On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Richard J Kuhns wrote:
>
> > So does all this mean that I now have to start using ssh-add/ssh-agent?
>
> Not at all; it's there as an option for people who have
> "secure" workstations and/or want single-signon for SSH. I often use
> ssh-agent if I have lots of remote CVS commits to do consecutively,
> e.g. do 'ssh-agent tcsh' and then ssh-add in the subshell, and exit when
> I'm done.
>
> ssh-add will also only invoke ssh-askpass if invoked with no controlling
> terminal, e.g. ssh-add < /dev/null or if called during the X login
> process. Otherwise it uses the good old (internal) text prompt.
>
> Kris
But then I'm back to my original question/problem: how to get ssh to ask
for a password using ssh-askpass. I've looked through the code (a little);
how would you feel about a patch to openssh/readpass.c that caused it to
call ssh-askpass if there's no controlling tty but DISPLAY is set?
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