ANNOUNCE: x11-ssh-askpass v1.2.0

[Damien Miller]

On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Jim Knoble wrote:

>   - Adds the ability to display passphrase prompts with more than one
>     line (needed for challenge-response authentication types).
>     Requested by Markus Friedl of the OpenSSH project.

Could you explain this a little more? I should update the GNOME askpass
to match.

> This release of x11-ssh-askpass has received cursory testing.  Although
> the changes are relatively small and contained, well ... so is knee
> surgery, but that doesn't mean the patient can walk right afterward.
> Please bludgeon this release severely and send me the corpse.  It would
> be nice for this to go into the next round of portable OpenSSH RPM
> packages.

To this end, could interested parties please give this a good thrashing 
ASAP?

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