Bug#319881: subversion: [psvn] cannot type in passphrase for svn+ssh

[Frank Küster]

Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <kon at iki.fi> wrote:

> Frank Küster <frank at kuesterei.ch> writes:
>
>> In pcvs.el, x11-ssh-askpass is used.
>
> Not in Emacs 21.4, nor in emacs--multi-tty--0--patch-426.
> In pcvs-parse.el, cvs-parse-ignored-messages holds a regexp
> with which pcvs skips messages where ssh reports it is starting
> ssh-askpass.  But pcvs itself never runs x11-ssh-askpass.

Frankly, I don't know and don't care how it's implemented.  But I know
that I had to install ssh-askpass to get authenticated access to Debian
CVS working (unless I had used ssh-add before).

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer