From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 23:16:31 GMT
Subject: Re: Git GUI vs interactive post-commit hooks
Message-ID: <20080520231631.GB22934@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20080520230204.GA5383@atjola.homenet>

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 01:02:04AM +0200, Björn Steinbrink wrote:

> > Redirect stdin from /dev/null
> 
> Does that actually work for you? It didn't work for me, because ssh then
> simply goes and opens /dev/tty to ask for the password.
> 
> $ ssh -V
> OpenSSH_4.7p1 Debian-10, OpenSSL 0.9.8g 19 Oct 2007

I had to perform this same task a few weeks ago, and ended up using
'setsid' to get rid of the controlling tty. You may also need to unset
SSH_ASKPASS and DISPLAY.

-Peff