[Bug 81] ssh cannot use ssh-askspass & passphrases as documented

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2002-01-29T17:31:39Z

dean.r.smart at mail.sprint.com changed:

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------- Additional Comments From dean.r.smart at mail.sprint.com  2002-01-30
04:31 -------
D. Millers commnents are interesting.

However it seems that they changes that I suggest are required to run scp in a
nohup'd script, with no executables other that ssh and scp. The use of
setsid
would seem to not apply if one is using shell scripting and shell commands. The
code change I suggest makes things work and it fails to use ssh-askpass
without.

So why is allow stdin used for ssh-add if is so dangerous. My understanding of
the code, which is very limited, is that this variable allows the passphrase
stdin to come from the stdout of sss-askpass.