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diff --git a/doc/bugs/windows_ssh_webapp_password_entry_broken/comment_1_efe3225766e0ef010534e77f1d073541._comment b/doc/bugs/windows_ssh_webapp_password_entry_broken/comment_1_efe3225766e0ef010534e77f1d073541._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8941daa35 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/windows_ssh_webapp_password_entry_broken/comment_1_efe3225766e0ef010534e77f1d073541._comment @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="joey" + subject="""comment 1""" + date="2015-05-26T20:28:42Z" + content=""" +Had a closer look at this, and I'm stumped. The ssh.exe from msysgit seems +to be built with `SSH_ASKPASS` support, based on strings. But, I cannot seem +to get it to use it. + +OTOH, the ssh from cygwin did support this. Just had other problems so it's +not being used any longer. + +At a guess, from reading ssh's code, I might need to find a way to defeat +ssh's isatty check on windows. + +<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10960269/git-ssh-askpass-on-windows> +hints that there might be a way to start the process "with CreateProcess() +dwCreationFlags DETACHED_PROCESS" to make it work. +"""]] |