ssh private key password

[Jerry Amundson]

2009/1/9 Callum Lerwick <seg at haxxed.com>:
> On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 09:45 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> That's right.  The key argument against a pop-up dialog box that asks
>> for the passphrase is that we're training people to type secrets into
>> pop-up dialog boxes.  Bad psychology, bad security.
>
> And how do you suggest GUI applications ask for passwords on a GUI
> system?

We're talking about a command-line tool, *not* a GUI application. See OP.