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[John A Meinel <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It is difficult to do. If you only used 'paramiko' as the ssh agent, it
would probably be pretty easy to trap in and have your own dialogs.

If you look at bzrlib/transport/ssh.py you can see "_paramiko_auth" which goes through our existing:
  auth = config.AuthenticationConfig()
...
  auth.get_password(...)

If you trace through that you see it ends up at:
password = ui.ui_factory.get_password(prompt,
                                      host=prompt_host, user=user)

Which is how you could inject your own ui_factory to prompt the user.

I thought there was a way to have a custom prompt for ssh (at least for
ssh-agent) given that is what happens Ubuntu desktop. I can't seem to
find an environment variable. But I certainly thought there was
something you could do to say "get your authentication from running this
program."

Think 'pinentry' program for gpg-agent, and something similar to that
for ssh-agent. I don't know what it would be, though :(.

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Push to bzr+ssh prompts for key password in shell
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/394599
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Status in Bazaar Explorer: Triaged

Bug description:
My ssh key has a password. When I push to a remoter server over bzr+ssh using bzr explorer the password prompt appears in the shell used to launch "bzr explorer" rather than in the explorer interface. Unless you notice this, it just appears as if bzr explorer has hung.