No security concious software is going to allow you to specify a
password on the commandline, because anyone would be able to see your
password by running 'ps'
Jeff Dilcher writes:
> Yes, the problem I have, however, is that ssh-add seems to require
> you to type in your password in at the console, rather than accepting
> a command line argument, as I wish it would. I may be missing something
> obvious, though, so if you know otherwise, let me know!
>
> -Jeff
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yu, Jerry ">z.yu@Ptek.com>
> To: Jeff Dilcher ">dilcher@cueva.com>
> Cc: ">ale@ale.org ">ale@ale.org>
> Date: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 12:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [ale] ssh without a manually supplied password
>
>
> >you can generate a new pair of keys with a empty (null) passphrase.
> >security risk blah blah. wonder if you can change the existing keys to do
> >that.
> >
> >you can set up ssh-agent (with ssh-add). ssh-add actually take passphrase
> >from command line arguments. So, you can do a little init script to
> >wrap this up and tie it to your system run level. With the permission
> >carefully set, it could be somewhat safer than the null-passphrase
> >approach.
> >
> >Jerry Yu
> >Systems Engineer https://punch/~zyu
> >Premiere Technologies ">zyu@tc.net
> >404-262-8544 (O)
> >
> >On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Jeff Dilcher wrote:
> >
> >#Hello,
> >#
> >#I am thinking of setting up Fetchmail to reqularly check an ISP
> >#for mail within an SSH session.
> >#
> >#I would like to have happen without me having to type in a
> >#password at any point.
> >#
> >#I think I read that you can have SSH only prompt for a password
> >#on the first connection only using an authorization agent. I would
> >#like to never have to input a password manually.
> >#
> >#Is this possible?
> >#
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