Now as before I am trying to do automation of remote SSH operations. ssh(1) is particularly unfriendly to that. Ditto scp(1)
It can be done using a masochistic trio:
1. set SSH_ASKPASS, provide an askpass program;
2. set DISPLAY to something;
3. run ssh under setsid(1)
but that precludes access to $?
In the past I've worked around that by using Perl's Net::SSH::Perl (very slow) or by using Dropbear which is MIT-licensed.
This time as my automation Bash script must run under Linux and Cygwin/Win32 I have elected to use plink/pscp which are native to Windows, lend themselves easily to scripting, mirror stdin/stderr and which to my pleasure compile cleanly on Linux and work as designed.
One leg up for Simon and legacy boos to Tatu and the OpenBSD team.
-ulianov
