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Bug#245714: ssh-add and ssh-keygen echo password to tty



Colin Watson wrote:
On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 01:41:00PM -0700, Phil Dibowitz wrote:

Both ssh-add and ssh-keygen echo your password to the tty in the new
3.8p1-3 version that I just dist-upgraded to. This is a pretty large
security problem.


Er. Not for me they don't! What terminal emulator are you using?


I'm using aterm. I've also heard this in the irc-channel I op in, so I don't think its just aterm (cause not many people use it). Let me try xterm.... yes, xterm does it as well:

bash-2.05b$ ssh-add
Enter passphrase for /home/phil/.ssh/id_rsa: thisis being echoed

(that's from an xterm).


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