[Bug 1542] New: Send echo on/off flag to SSH_ASKPASS

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https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1542

           Summary: Send echo on/off flag to SSH_ASKPASS
           Product: Portable OpenSSH
           Version: -current
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: ssh
        AssignedTo: unassigned-bugs at mindrot.org
        ReportedBy: t8m at centrum.cz


When the SSH_ASKPASS helper is used for getting answer for a question
it might be a question which is not a passphrase but for example a
yes/no question when a new host key is received.

Unfortunately the helper is not getting any hints about what it should
present to the user, whether it should echo the answer the user types
or not. Even better in case of questions with limited number of answers
it could get a list of the possible answers so the askpass dialog could
use a radio buttons instead of text entry box. But for start it would
be good enough if the askpass at least know about the echo on/off flag.

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