Pseudo-tty allocation and -T option

[Markus Friedl]

On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 10:04:55AM +0000, Giles Constant wrote:
> Failing that, I have a patch (well, I have a hacked version of ssh - i can
> make a patch :-)) that has a "-oPassword=foo" option.  I haven't got round
> to making it clear the cmdline string out of the ps listing yet, but
> provided there's noone on your box capable of reading the ps listing it's
> safe.

i don't think that a
	Password foo
option will ever be included in OpenSSH.

it's a bad practice to have plaintext passwords
in files, commandlines or environment variables
and i don't want to encourage this in OpenSSH.

-markus