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Re: OpenSSH uploaded replacing ssh, please test



Tommi Virtanen <tv@debian.org> writes:

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> On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 12:40:10PM +0200, Tommi Virtanen wrote:
> > 	Here's a patch to make it use ssh-askpass, now someone
> >         needs to provide a free ssh-askpass too..
> 
> 	And here's ssh-askpass too. Consider it public domain.

Is that attempting to do anything to stop people sniffing the
passphrase?

It needs to do the same sorts of tricks that xdm does to ensure that
someone hasn't run an invisible keyboard-event grabber before running
ssh-askpass.

Cheers, Phil.


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