ssh-askpass keyboard grab problems

From: John A. Sullivan III (john.sullivan_at_nexusmgmt.com)
Date: 07/22/03

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    To: secureshell@securityfocus.com
Date: 21 Jul 2003 21:20:19 -0400

            We're developing a security application (http://iscs.sourceforge.net)
    that uses SSH for out-of-band management. Sometimes we want to use rsa
    keys and other times we want to use user ids and passwords. We noticed
    that there was not an OpenSSH API that we could use to pass the user's
    password and that we could not give it via stdin. We did notice that we
    could set SSH_ASKPASS and launch gnome-ssh-askpass or ssh-askpass (or I
    suppose anything else).
            We tried this and were quite pleased with the result in that it allows
    us to get on with the rest of the code and not worry about this for
    now. However, every time we launch the application and it requests the
    ssh password via either ssh-askpass or gnome-ssh-askpass or
    x11-ssh-askpass, we receive errors about "could not grab keyboard" and
    hints that there might be malice afoot.
            What is causing this error and how to we go about eliminating it?
    Thanks - John Sullivan 

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