SSH_ASKPASS: program exists, env is OK, but askpass program is not started

Hi,

I just wanted to use ssh with lincvs on my FC3 box but it seems that I cannot 
get my ssh which comes with FC3 to work properly (OpenSSH_3.9p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7a 
Feb 19 2003). I checked in the shellscript that I use to start up ssh that (1) 
SSH_ASKPASS and DSIPLAY are in the environment and make sense (i.e., the 
askpass program is found and can be executed), (2) no tty is set (output of 
"tty"). Yet ssh tries to read the passwork from the commandline and does not 
start the program specified by SSH_ASKPASS as it should (that are the 
requirements given in the manpage). Also ssh < /dev/null as indicated in the 
manpage does not make a difference.

I checked the manpages and my configuration multiple times, tried Google ... 
but it seems that this specicific problem has not occured to anyone yet ...

I am a bit out of good advice now and any help would be highly approciated.

Best regards,

Manfred
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Manfred Hauswirth, LSIR - Distributed Information Systems Laboratory
EPFL-I&C-IIF, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
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