How to make patch available to the general public

[Filippo Erik Negroni]

Thanks guys, I will look into that.

At the moment my patch does two things:
1. Allows a '-z' option on the command line to pass the password as an
argument: I guess we could make that the descriptor number where to
read the password from
2. It alters the authentication order in the authentication list
structure to allow clear text password to be at the top of the list if
-z is specified. This had to be done in order to allow clear text to
superseed any other available authentication methods.
The reason behind the patch was to do with the way the ssh server
impersonates a user on Windows, making it impossible to run a remote
build session.

I will try and improve my patch to allow for the change you suggested
and will then post it here.

Thank you.

2008/6/3 Gert Doering <gert at greenie.muc.de>:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 09:18:19PM +1000, Darren Tucker wrote:
>> A better approach would be generalizing SSH_ASKPASS so it can be used
>> even if there's a controlling tty.  This way the password is passed over
>> a descriptor.
>
> That would be quite useful indeed.