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...eed for transmitting a password to SSH in a secure way has *nothing* to do with X11 or terminal ttys, at all. Most applications have some good mechanism for doing this (vncviewer, rdesktop, smbclient, etc); it's just crazy that OpenSSH doesn't. Personally, I prefer a new option instead of SSH_ALWAYS_ASKPASS, but that is no big issue. I also think that the host key confirmation should not use SSH_ASKPASS, but another variable (for example, SSH_KEY_CONFIRM). The current GUI which requires the user to type "yes" is very un-intuitive. People just don't understand it. The GUI should have a...