Regarding SSH_ASKPASS

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 06:13:12AM -0000, ttk2 at ciar.org wrote:
> only other way to get ssh_askpass() to get called is for 
> open(_PATH_TTY, O_RDWR) to fail.  But /dev/tty is a+rw in the 
> normal case.

/dev/tty can only be opened if the program has a controlling tty (which
might be false if called from a daemon, or from an X11 window manager,
etc.)

gert
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