[plug] ssh passwords

[Onno Benschop]

Cameron Patrick wrote:

>Craig Ringer wrote:
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>>Unfortunately it doesn't seem like ssh uses ssh-askpass when requesting
>>a login password, only a key passphrase - otherwise that might have been
>>worth exploring.
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>It does, but (at least on my desktop, Debian ssh 3.8.1p1-8.sarge.4)
>ssh and ssh-add only ever use ssh-askpass when DISPLAY is set and it
>has no controlling terminal.  I'm not quite sure why.
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Hmm, so if I read that correctly, that means that if it was using 
ssh-askpass, I could use ssh-agent to "remember" that for me. If that is 
the case, how do I "not have a controlling terminal" if I want to do this?

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