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

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On 02/25/2011 12:56 PM, Ángel González wrote:
> If a XGrabKeyboard is really needed, what about grabbing it and
> immediatly releasing it?

hm, that's an idea, though if XSetInputFocus() is sufficient, i'd rather
not play games with anything that does global locks.

> Aren't both instances spawned by ssh-agent? It seems the agent task to
> ensure they will
> not conflict (or maybe respawn the failed one when there's no more
> pending dialogs).

The ControlMaster=ask situations are invoking ssh-askpass from the
socket-multiplexing ssh connections themselves, not from ssh-agent.

	--dkg

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