Strange read_passphrase behaviour ?

[Markus Friedl]

why do you get ENOTTY?

should ssh auto-set Batchmode=yes for ENOTTY?

On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 10:56:24AM +0200, Jarno Huuskonen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm sorry if this has already come up on the list, I did a quick search
> of the archive and didn't notice it.
> 
> I noticed IMHO strange behavior in read_passphrase:
> 
> If readpassphrase returns NULL and sets errno to ENOTTY, then
> read_passphrase returns an empty passphrase to the caller instead of
> error, now what happens with password authentication is that
> if readpassphrase fails every time then ssh sends 3 empty passwords to
> the server.
> 
> Is this the expected behaviour ?
> 
> -Jarno
> 
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> Jarno Huuskonen <Jarno.Huuskonen at uku.fi>
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