ssh & ssh-askpass obnoxious dialogs
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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