Re: SSH for Binary Data Pipe

From: Jacob Nevins (jacobn_at_chiark.greenend.org.uk)
Date: 03/23/05 

Date: 23 Mar 2005 12:13:01 +0000 (GMT)

cnystrom@gmail.com writes:
>To be able to respond to the password prompt I had to run the SSH
>process using a pseudo-terminal.

Have you considered avoiding the need to do this, for instance by using
a passphraseless keypair?

>So do I have to chose between being able to respond to the password
>prompt (psuedo-terminal), or a binary stream? Is it programmatically
>imposssible to have both with ssh?

You can disable allocation of a pty on the _server_ side with the -T
option; then you only have the client-side pty you've inflicted on
yourself to worry about. I haven't thought about whether that helps or
leaves you with any insurmountable problems.

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