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...add < /dev/null" in my X startup scripts, but didn't have ssh-askpass installed, ssh-add started spewing errors into my .xsession-errors and didn't stop. I found that what happens is: ssh-add forks and attempts to exec ssh-askpass. The exec-ed process is supposed to pass back the passphrase on stdout. However, when the exec fails, the child ssh-add process exits and--if stdout was not a terminal--flushes its stdio buffers, which happen to contain a "Need passphrase" message. As a result, the parent ssh-add sees what it interprets as a passphrase coming back from the chil...