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has caused the report #422295,
regarding putty-tools: please send the password prompt somewhere other than
stdout
to be marked as having been forwarded to the upstream software
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On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 03:36:46PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> I did: puttygen -L ./id_rsa >id_rsa.pub
> It apparently sent the password prompt to stdout, so I typed in my pw,
> then: sed -i -e 1d ./id_rsa.pub
>
> I think the prompt should go to stderr or /dev/tty, even if the password
> is read from stdin.
There's a -o option; but yes, this does seem a little odd anyway, so
forwarding upstream for their opinion. FWIW, OpenSSH writes passphrase
prompts to /dev/tty if it can, otherwise stderr.
Thanks,
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Colin Watson [[email protected]]
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