ssh-askpass should be able to distinguish between a prompt for confirmation and a prompt for an actual passphrase

Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Fri Feb 25 14:28:16 EST 2011


Jameson Rollins wrote:
> I think Daniel's suggestion of using an environment variable to change
> to UI to one that just asks for a yes/no response (and doesn't grab the
> keyboard) is definitely the way to go.

Absolute no go for me. Would be unacceptable for me to not be able to
hit enter without first focusing on the prompt to agree.


//Peter
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