gebser@speakeasy.net wrote:
This will depend upon the OS and, in the case of Linux, the
distribution. On my system:
# echo $SSH_ASKPASS
/usr/libexec/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass
Seeing this and reading the askpass section of the ssh manpage and the
doc distributed with the package leads me to believe/guess that
ssh-askpass is used in an X (or other GUI) environment. If you're
doing the emacs cvs call in a GUI, this could be the problem. Try
doing it at the console-- i.e., go to runlevel 3 or, in X/Linux, do
a Ctrl-Alt-F2 and run it there. So which OS are you using?
I am running it on an SGI supercomputer. Typing
>uname
IRIX64
> echo $SSH_ASKPASS
SSH_ASKPASS: Undefined variable.