ssh private key password

[Matthew Woehlke]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 23:42 +0100, nodata wrote:
>> No, I'm just getting annoyed that a GUI is popping up when I am using a
>> command line app. Not sure of the point of it, it seems counter
>> intuitive.
> 
> You're using a command line app from a graphical terminal.

...but according to Ricky Zhou:
> From the ssh-add manpage:
> 
>      DISPLAY and SSH_ASKPASS
>              If ssh-add needs a passphrase, it will read the passphrase from
>              the current terminal if it was run from a terminal.

...so shouldn't it use the terminal in this case? (isatty() thinks 
Konsole and xterm are terminals, at any rate.)

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