trying to debug ssh-askpass problem

[Frederik Eaton]

Thanks, that's helpful. What is the default? Is it documented? Is what
you just said documented? The man page seems to imply that SSH_ASKPASS
enables that feature (there is no other mention of any 'askpass'), can
it be changed to be clearer, e.g. to describe the default behavior
without SSH_ASKPASS set?

Thanks,

Frederik

On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 02:02:42PM +0100, Markus Friedl wrote:
> SSH_ASKPASS just overrides the default, it does not
> enable this feature.
> 
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 03:06:52AM -0800, Frederik Eaton wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I have a script which calls ssh-add at a certain point, and I'm
> > getting the following error:
> > 
> > ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/bin/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory
> > 
> > I don't see why it's doing this, since SSH_ASKPASS isn't set, and
> > there should be a working terminal:
> > 
> >      SSH_ASKPASS
> >               If ssh needs a passphrase, it will read the passphrase from the
> >               current terminal if it was run from a terminal.  If ssh does not
> >               have a terminal associated with it but DISPLAY and SSH_ASKPASS
> >               are set, it will execute the program specified by SSH_ASKPASS
> >               and open an X11 window to read the passphrase.  This is particu-
> >               larly useful when calling ssh from a .Xsession or related
> >               script.  (Note that on some machines it may be necessary to
> >               redirect the input from /dev/null to make this work.)
> > 
> > How can I find out what is causing ssh-add to try to execute
> > ssh-askpass?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Frederik
> > 
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