OpenSSH 2.5.2p2 and askass (fwd)

[Markus Friedl]

On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 05:04:07PM -0500, Mark D. Roth wrote:
> On Wed Apr 11 18:49 2001 +0200, Markus Friedl wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:05:46AM -0400, Bruce H. McIntosh wrote:
> > > I've been from one end of the source to the other and it doesn't seem that
> > > OpenSSH 2.5.2p2 will *EVER* use ssh-askpass (or any variation thereof).
> > 
> > ssh-add uses ssh-askpass, see ssh-add(1)
> 
> There are still times when it's useful to have this functionality in
> ssh itself.  The most common example I run into is when using
> ChallengeResponseAuthentication and launching ssh from a window
> manager menu button.
> 
> I submitted a patch back in December to add ssh-askpass support to
> ssh.  What's the status of this?  If it would help expedite, I can
> update the patch for the current CVS snapshot.

the patch will be delayed for openssh-3.1