Controlling ssh from an external program

From: by way of Jeff Anderson (jander_at_hundredacrewood.org)
Date: 10/20/04

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    Hi -

    I am working on a linux remote administration tool, and I would like to be
    able to control ssh/scp via an external program. I know the standard answer
    to this is to use expect, however this is NOT an option.

    The next standard answer is to use an empty passphrase or ssh-agent, but I
    cannot guarantee that the remote system will have a keypair, so I need to be
    able to fallback on password authentication if that fails. The controlling
    program needs to be able to feed the password to ssh/scp.

    Additionally, I can only use an unmodified version of openssh (i.e. whatever
    version is available on the system that the admin tool is run from).

    Any ideas?????

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    Jeff Anderson

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