More Slack7 heartbreak.

Richard June rjune at ims1.imagestream-is.com
Sun Apr 16 03:43:16 EST 2000



> reading from stdin is a bad idea, e.g. stdin might be redirected.
> 
> some broken distributions ship with /dev/tty unreable.
> 
> > (this cause ssh to die w/ "You have no controlling tty.
> > Cannot read passphrase.\n", line 69 of readpass.c, I've made it work by
> > calling
> > password = read_passphrase(prompt, 1); instead of 
> > password = read_passphrase(prompt, 0); 
> > in sshconnect.c line 940
> 
> -m
> 






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