[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawliqfHEW134uawIUPwyKiyOdoF-oI5TxnQ"
 nickname="Ethan"
 subject="Doh.  /usr/bin/ssh-askpass needs to be on *local* machine."
 date="2013-08-15T20:13:31Z"
 content="""
My mistake; the problem was the I was missing /usr/bin/ssh-askpass on my local machine, not the rsync.net host.

I still think this is a bug.  I'm on a debian machine and installed git-annex from its debian package, so seems like the ssh-askpass package should be listed as a dependency.  But that's a debian packaging problem, not a git-annex bug per se, so I'll go file it elsewhere.
"""]]