Hi, There is small bug in ssh_askpass(). Fix like this. Additionally removing '\r' is for Win32 environment. --- readpass.c 2001/10/09 05:42:49 1.1.1.1 +++ readpass.c 2001/10/09 08:06:38 @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ { pid_t pid; size_t len; - char *nl, *pass; + char *pass; int p[2], status; char buf[1024]; @@ -71,16 +71,15 @@ fatal("ssh_askpass: exec(%s): %s", askpass, strerror(errno)); } close(p[1]); - len = read(p[0], buf, sizeof buf); + len = read(p[0], buf, sizeof buf -1); close(p[0]); while (waitpid(pid, &status, 0) < 0) if (errno != EINTR) break; if (len <= 1) return xstrdup(""); - nl = strchr(buf, '\n'); - if (nl) - *nl = '\0'; + buf[len] = '\0'; + buf[strcspn(buf, "\r\n")] = '\0'; pass = xstrdup(buf); memset(buf, 0, sizeof(buf)); return pass; --- Regards, Shun-ichi Goto <gotoh at taiyo.co.jp> R&D Group, TAIYO Corp., Tokyo, JAPAN