When connecting to an SSH server for the first time, the regular message is shown in a pop-up dialog window, which expects a written answer (yes/no/fingerprint) but uses a password prompt (with letters obscured):
I don't know if we can easily intervene and find out whether the prompt coming from ssh-agent is for a key password or for trusting an unknown host. But it would be very nice if we could use regular text, or even better, display a yes/no dialog for unknown host.
For those who want to reproduce, ssh-keygen -R gin.g-node.org removes an entry from ~/.ssh/known-hosts.
When connecting to an SSH server for the first time, the regular message is shown in a pop-up dialog window, which expects a written answer (yes/no/fingerprint) but uses a password prompt (with letters obscured):
I don't know if we can easily intervene and find out whether the prompt coming from ssh-agent is for a key password or for trusting an unknown host. But it would be very nice if we could use regular text, or even better, display a yes/no dialog for unknown host.
For those who want to reproduce,
ssh-keygen -R gin.g-node.orgremoves an entry from~/.ssh/known-hosts.Ping @apierzch1