[Bug 69] Generalize SSH_ASKPASS

[Markus Friedl]

i'm talking about what you have not what's nice to have.


On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 01:55:43PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 13:46, Markus Friedl wrote:
> > of course, you just set DISPLAY for ssh.
> 
> You're advocating the option I gave below?...: 
> 
> > On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 12:59:49PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > > I suppose we could have a shell script wrapper around SSH alone, which
> > > does nothing but set a DISPLAY variable if none is set, add '-x' to the
> > > options to prevent ssh itself from misinterpreting it, detach from the
> > > controlling tty, etc... 
> 
> I consider that an evil hack to work around the bug.
> 
> What purpose does it serve to obey $SSH_ASKPASS only if $DISPLAY is also
> set?
> 
> For what reason is it not acceptable to have a SIMON_SAYS_SSH_ASKPASS
> (or perhaps less sarcastically named) option in addition to SSH_ASKPASS,
> if it _is_ really necessary for $SSH_ASKPASS to be conditional on
> $DISPLAY? 
> 
> -- 
> dwmw2