Bug#343267: openssh-client: scp should have a more descriptive prompt than "Password:"
On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 19:10 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> If you're using ChallengeResponseAuthentication on the remote side, ssh
> isn't generating the password prompt. It's giving you exactly the prompt
> that the remote PAM module sent. And PAM modules generally do not use
> distinguished prompts because that can expose what PAM module is running,
> which is sometimes not desirable. (It also turns out that other password
> prompts break some applications, such as some Windows ssh clients.)
>
> If you use PasswordAuthentication, ssh will indeed produce a password
> prompt like the one that you want.
Okay, good to know. Thanks for the explanation and sorry for taking
up your time.
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Andrew Moise <chops@demiurgestudios.com>
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