See 3/3 for in depth explanation. After this, there's still one problem - the ssh transport (tcp+ssh://...) because virNetSocketNewConnectSSH() does not really ask for virConnectAuthCallbackPtr. There should be a way to fix it though: from bash script parse URI and append ?no_tty=1 at the end of URI. This directs virNetSocketNewConnectSSH() to execute SSH binary with BatchMode=yes which is documented to suppress keyboard interaction. If we find this ^^ needed I can try to write a patch. But for now, let's fix other transports. Michal Prívozník (3): virnetsshsession: Don't check for auth callbacks in virNetSSHAuthenticatePassword() virnetlibsshsession: Check later for auth callback in virNetLibsshAuthenticatePassword() virsh: Provide no auth callbacks for bash completer src/rpc/virnetlibsshsession.c | 14 +++++++------- src/rpc/virnetsshsession.c | 7 ------- tools/virsh.c | 10 +++++++++- 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) -- 2.53.0