askpass for passwords?

Jurgen Botz jurgen at botz.org
Sun Nov 4 06:08:51 EST 2001


Is there a particular reason the client can't use SSH_ASKPASS for
passwords when using password authentication?  This would seem to
be useful when using ssh in scripted commands against servers that
only allow password authentication.

:j

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