The following reply was made to PR bin/30270; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Geert Hendrickx" <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be>
To: Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@Xtrmntr.org>
Cc: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/30270: ssh-askpass path hardcoded into ssh-add
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 13:23:37 +0200

 On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 11:21:57AM +0200, Lubomir Sedlacik wrote:
 > On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 09:11:00AM +0000, geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be wrote:
 > > >Synopsis:       ssh-askpass path hardcoded into ssh-add
 > > >Description:
 > > I have ssh-askpass installed into /usr/pkg/bin/ssh-askpass (from
 > > pkgsrc).  ssh-add in X says: 
 > > 
 > > ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/X11R6/bin/ssh-askpass): No such file or
 > > directory
 > > 
 > > /usr/src/crypto/dist/ssh/pathnames.h has this path hardcoded.  
 > > >How-To-Repeat:
 > > have pkgsrc/security/ssh-askpass installed, and do "ssh-add <
 > > /dev/null" with DISPLAY variable set.  
 > > >Fix:
 > > /usr/src/crypto/dist/ssh/pathnames.h has the path hardcoded.  Change
 > > the path, or make it user-definable, or just look it up in $PATH.  
 > 
 > from ssh-add(1):
 > 
 > ENVIRONMENT
 >      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.  If ssh-add
 >        does not have a terminal associated with it but DISPLAY and
 >        SSH_ASKPASS are set, it will execute the program specified by
 >        SSH_ASKPASS and open an X11 window to read the passphrase.  This
 >        is particularly useful when calling ssh-add from a .xsession or
 >        related script.  (Note that on some machines it may be necessary
 >        to redirect the input from /dev/null to make this work.)
 > 
 > did you define SSH_ASKPASS?
 
 Ah, I'm sorry...  It works just fine when I set SSH_ASKPASS to the
 correct path.  You may mark the report as closed.  
 
 Thanks.  
 
 GH
 
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