ssh private key password

[Jonathan Underwood]

2009/1/9 Ralf Ertzinger <fedora at camperquake.de>:
> Hi.
>
> On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 21:48:49 +0000, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
>
>> By default this is set:
>>
>> SSH_ASKPASS=/usr/libexec/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass
>
> For the record: /usr/libexec/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass is _not_ the program
> popping up when ssh-add is run from an xterm. It seems like the ssh-agent
> program (which is not the classical ssh-agent anymore, but a part of gnome)
> is doing this on it's own, which explains why it does not care about being
> called from a terminal or not.

I never said it was :) I just said unset it, and the behaviour reverts.