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...nts a prompt and returns the response allocated with xmalloc(). * Uses /dev/tty or stdin/out depending on arg. Optionally disables echo * of response depending on arg. Tries to ensure that no other userland * buffer is storing the response. */ As one of the arguments a variable "from_stdin" is passed, but I did whether figure out where this variable is set nor where it is defined, it seems to be always 0. Depending on the value of "from_stdin", the function "cli_open" seems to return the file descriptors of /dev/tty or of stdin/stdout. I have no idea yet if...

...thenticationConnection *ac, const char *filename) { diff -U 3 -N -r ORIG/openssh-2.2.0p1/ssh.h openssh-2.2.0p1/ssh.h --- ORIG/openssh-2.2.0p1/ssh.h Tue Aug 22 20:46:25 2000 +++ openssh-2.2.0p1/ssh.h Sat Sep 9 01:10:07 2000 @@ -426,6 +426,12 @@ */ char *read_passphrase(const char *prompt, int from_stdin); +/* + * Reads a passphrase by calling ssh-askpass. Returns the passphrase + * (allocated with xmalloc), being very careful to ensure that no + * other userland buffer is storing the password. + */ +char *ssh_askpass(char *askpass, char *msg); /*------------ Definitions for logging. --------...

...a. */ pw = getpwuid(original_real_uid); if (!pw) { diff -ur openssh-1.2pre16/ssh.h openssh-1.2pre16.patched/ssh.h --- openssh-1.2pre16/ssh.h Thu Dec 9 22:29:24 1999 +++ openssh-1.2pre16.patched/ssh.h Thu Dec 9 22:14:30 1999 @@ -429,6 +429,12 @@ char *read_passphrase(const char *prompt, int from_stdin); /* + * Attempts to call the ssh-askpass program to read a passphrase when + * there is no tty and $DISPLAY is set. + */ +char *ssh_askpass(const char *askpass, const char *msg); + +/* * Saves the authentication (private) key in a file, encrypting it with * passphrase. The identification o...