Comment 19 for bug 414743

>>>>> "martin" == Martin Pool writes:

    martin> 2009/9/3 Alexander Belchenko <email address hidden>:
    >>> I will also mention that there is a way to get ssh to use an external
    >>> program to ask for passwords or passphrases, and we could try to hook
    >>> into that.  Whether it will give us such nice integration, and whether
    >>> it's worth writing that code for both paramiko and openssh is
    >>> questionable.
    >>
    >> So we have stalemate situation. And this is frustrating. :-/

    martin> No, I don't think it's a stalemate at all, it's just not quite trivial:

    martin> We can pursue either or both of two courses:

    martin> 1- Encouraging use of paramiko on unix; a good first step would be to
    martin> ask unix-based devs to try it. This may be easier if there was a
    martin> config option as well as a variable. We can just ask on the list. In
    martin> fact I'll just try it now!

    martin> 2- Hooking into openssh so it calls back to our uifactory to get the
    martin> password and other things.

3 - Have platform/distribution specific policies. We should try to
    *avoid* resorting to such extremes (because of the associated
    costs in test, code and documentation), but we shouldn't rule
    that out either.