Password from open filedescriptor

[Damien Miller]

On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Tom Holroyd wrote:

> 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?

It will ask $SSH_ASKPASS for a password if $DISPLAY is set. Have a look
at http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69 for a patch to make it
do more.


-d