Password from open filedescriptor

[Peter Astrand]

> > > 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.

Nice. I like it. Will this patch be accepted?


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/Peter Åstrand <astrand at lysator.liu.se>