Password from open filedescriptor

[Tom Holroyd]

On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Peter Astrand wrote:

> ssh-agent, as far as I know, only handles keys for public key
> authentication. I need to use the "password" authentication method.
> ssh-agent does not handle this, right?

No, it doesn't.  It'd be nice if it did (protocol changes required?),
though I wonder what the UI would look like.  It can't very well ask
for a password from the user after it daemonizes itself; is there some
standard program it can launch to ask for a password?