Re: [evolution-patches] [PATCH] IMAP preauth and subcommand connection.

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 18:21, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 23:12, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: 
> > I totally overlooked this when reviewing the patch. not necessarily a
> > bad thing, just "what happens if the user doesn't have ssh-askpass
> > installed?" and is that even possible? I think ssh comes with askpass,
> > but I forget. might be distributed separately sometimes?
> 
> Most distributions have ssh-askpass and ssh-agent set up properly by
> default now, I think. Even the Opie environment on the Compaq iPAQ
> handhelds boxes gets it right :)
> 
> > anyways, not sure one could easily handle the case where ssh-askpass
> > wasn't used? on the other hand, it'd be good to not hang either...
> 
> It doesn't hang -- that's why we explicitly detach from our controlling
> terminal, to avoid _any_ chance that ssh might attempt to get a password
> from it. If ssh thinks it needs to interact with the user for some
> reason and can't use $SSK_ASKPASS, it'll just exit and you'll get a
> dialog box saying you were disconnected.

ah, ok... sounds good to me then.

Jeff

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Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
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