[MERGE] Don't ask a password if there is no real terminal. (#69851)

[James Westby]

On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 06:29 +0200, Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> I'm thinking about testing, but I fear such test could hang selftest waiting
> for user infinitely (as it doing now). Theoretically I could launch
> it as subprocess and kill subprocess after 5-10 seconds if it hangs, but
> unfortunately os.kill absent on Windows.
> 

Yeah, that's a danger, but it should only strike if the test is
failing shouldn't it?

I agree that it would be undesirable though.

Thanks,

James