comment on another command line option

[Damien Miller]

On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, James Oden wrote:

> Yes, or perhaps even having it just come from stdin.
> Onetime I was working on a program that various things at
> an elevated privledge for a web application.  I set it up to
> take its arguments via standard input.  In this particular case I
> choose to format the input simular to CGI-BIN parameters, mainly
> because that was where my head was, but the main point is I could
> easily start up the program in perl with a write pipe, and pass the
> parameters without them showing up in the process table....james

You can write an ssh-askpass replacement to do what you require. It
just has to spit the passphrase out stdout.

-d

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