comment on another command line option

[Ed Santiago]

  Dennis Gearon writes:
  >I would like ssh to have the command line option of supplying the passphrase.

Speaking only for myself: if I were ever to see this option 
implemented, it would make me wonder what _other_ mind-bogglingly
stupid code was in the package, and destroy any shred of
confidence in openssh as a whole.

Why don't you just set up a passphrase-less key?

	% ssh-keygen -f ~/.ssh/id_wide_open

...then copy the public part to authorized_keys* on the remote
machine (and, if you're wise, set up "from=xxxx" therein).

^E
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Ed Santiago                 Toolsmith                 santiago at ascend.com