RE: password on command line, or other options?

Expect will definitely help but if you're more familiar with python, it
comes with an expect-like module...

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pexpect/

Giancarlo
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael W. Lucas [mailto:mwlucas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 9:31 PM
To: Chester Enright
Cc: Michael W. Lucas; secureshell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: password on command line, or other options?

On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 11:12:21AM -0600, Chester Enright wrote:
Probably using an expect script would help with that. The problem
still
arises that the password would still be stored in cleartext.

Expect... wow, that's a blast from the past.

Thanks for the suggestion. I know it's not ideal, but it's better
than rsh.

==ml


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