[PATCH] PreferAskpass in ssh_config

David Woodhouse
Sun, 10 Oct 2004 11:29:34 -0000

On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 11:19 -0500, Ben Lindstrom wrote:
> And this solves what real world problem?

It looks like it would remove the need for the horrid little wrapper
hack I have which disassociates from the controlling tty before running
ssh, purely to ensure that $SSH_ASKPASS gets invoked.

This is useful for pine, for example, where attempts to use the tty by
ssh are always going to fail. You _always_ want to use an external
program.

I also use it for automatic invocation of skey -- the script I use for
ssh-askpass actually uses the real askpass utility to ask for the skey
passphrase, then generates the response appropriately.

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dwmw2