OpenSSH 2.5.2p2 and askass (fwd)

[Bruce H. McIntosh]

On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, 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.

That's precisely the functionality I'm looking for.  I'm back to using
ssh-1.2.27 to get it.  I'd be very keen to see this capability back into
ssh itself, maybe along with an toggle in the config files to turn it on
and off?

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