Bill Studenmund <skippy@macro.stanford.edu> writes:

 > Hmm. That kinda worked. It got me to the point of realizing that the
 > problem is that the silly thing insists on makeing ssh-askpass, even
 > though I don't have X.

What's the problem with ssh-askpass? The program does not necessarily
need X11, as far as I know. When no X11 is available, it will query
the passphrase in the shell instead -- that's why it is built
nonetheless.

	-peter