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

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 02:35:42PM -0700, Phil Dibowitz wrote:
> 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).

I can't reproduce this either on i386 or powerpc with either pterm or
xterm. Can you get me an strace?

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]