On 14 Feb 1997, Peter Simons wrote:

> 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.

All the #include <X11/...> lines at the top. :-)

Take care,

Bill