[David Huggins-Daines <dhd at plcom.on.ca>] Bug#52414: ssh-add uses ssh-askpass, but ssh doesn't

[Markus Friedl]

On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 05:13:20PM +0000, Philip Hands wrote:
> OpenSSH's 'ssh' program doesn't seem to mimic the non-free SSH's behaviour
> of calling ssh-askpass when it's not possible to read the pass{phrase,word}
> from a terminal.

hm, this is not a bug in openssh.  i don't want ssh (setuid root)
exec a X11 program.

-markus