Re: askpass option

Georg Sauthoff <[email protected]> Mon, 24 Jan 2005 19:57:07 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.network.lsh.bugs
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On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 07:23:00PM +0100, Niels Möller wrote:
> Georg Sauthoff <[email protected]> writes:

Hi,

> > I think the username and hostname in the argument vector would 
> > be useful for
> > some applications. Is this a bad idea?
> 
> It might be useful (do you have any example scenarios?), but doesn't

yes. I think of a password agent, which caches different passwords
for different accounts (i.e. hosts + usernames).

> quite fit with the internal interface that the askpass feature uses.

Hm, too bad ...

Regards
Georg Sauthoff

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