I just updated ssh from debian unstable... And a horrible 'enhancement'
just reared its ugly head.

It would appear that now when you attempt to ssh out from an xterm that
has its DISPLAY env set, some poxy ssh-askpass pops up and gets you to
type your password into it, instead of there being a prompt on your
terminal that you actually kicked off ssh from...

First question... How do I disable this from happening without having to
either change my DISPLAY env, and without specifying additional
parameters on the command line? if I'd wanted some X window popup for
authentication, I'd be running windoze!

There appears to be no man page for ssh-askpass, nor any docs in the man
pages for ssh or ssh_config that would affect this obnoxious (IMO)
behaviour...

Oh... The default failure mode for this is to break BTW, because
although ssh appears to REQUIRE ssh-askpass, it doesn't get installed as
a pre-req!

TIA
Hamish.


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On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 03:37:20PM +0100, hamish wrote:
> I just updated ssh from debian unstable... And a horrible 'enhancement'
> just reared its ugly head.
>
> It would appear that now when you attempt to ssh out from an xterm that
> has its DISPLAY env set, some poxy ssh-askpass pops up and gets you to
> type your password into it, instead of there being a prompt on your
> terminal that you actually kicked off ssh from...

http://bugs.debian.org/245718

Upgrade makedev. It's not ssh's fault.

Cheers,

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Hi,

here is some help from the german user list:

as root execute 'chmod a=rw /dev/tty'

see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=245735

Tim

Am Montag, 26. April 2004 16:37 schrieb hamish:
> I just updated ssh from debian unstable... And a horrible 'enhancement'
> just reared its ugly head.
>
> It would appear that now when you attempt to ssh out from an xterm that
> has its DISPLAY env set, some poxy ssh-askpass pops up and gets you to
> type your password into it, instead of there being a prompt on your
> terminal that you actually kicked off ssh from...
>
> First question... How do I disable this from happening without having to
> either change my DISPLAY env, and without specifying additional
> parameters on the command line? if I'd wanted some X window popup for
> authentication, I'd be running windoze!
>
> There appears to be no man page for ssh-askpass, nor any docs in the man
> pages for ssh or ssh_config that would affect this obnoxious (IMO)
> behaviour...
>
> Oh... The default failure mode for this is to break BTW, because
> although ssh appears to REQUIRE ssh-askpass, it doesn't get installed as
> a pre-req!
>
> TIA
>   Hamish.
>
>
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On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 03:37:20PM +0100, hamish wrote:
> It would appear that now when you attempt to ssh out from an xterm that
> has its DISPLAY env set, some poxy ssh-askpass pops up and gets you to
> type your password into it, instead of there being a prompt on your
> terminal that you actually kicked off ssh from...

Of course, if you'd bothered to check the BTS, you'd have noted the grave
bug(s) filed against ssh, and their actual cause, namely the change to
MAKEDEV.

After all, chances are that it wasn't ssh that caused it, since ssh didn't
update.  You did actually pay attention to what was updating, yes?

Ah, can't expect a user of unstable to do either one, I suppose.

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hamish@travellingkiwi.com (hamish) writes:

> I just updated ssh from debian unstable... And a horrible
> 'enhancement' just reared its ugly head.

Sorry, that's my fault.  Pull makedev -69 and I believe you'll be happy agai
n.

Bdale


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Bdale Garbee wrote:

>hamish@travellingkiwi.com (hamish) writes:
>
>
> 
>
>Sorry, that's my fault.  Pull makedev -69 and I believe you'll be happy aga
in.
>
>

Ah.. Thanks...  Pulling now...

Brilliant... All better. Thanks for that. (And Tim's help as well).

BTW... Nice work... Thanks to all the Debian developers.


>Bdale
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