Password from open filedescriptor

[Jason Stone]

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> The included patch adds a new option to the ssh client:
>
> -d fd   Read the password from file descriptor fd. If you use 0 for fd,
>         the passphrase will be read from stdin.
>
> This is basically the same as GPG:s parameter --passphrase-fd.
>
> Flames about why this is a bad idea goes into /dev/null. I really need
> to do this. There are lots of ugly Expect-hacks out there, but I want
> a more clean solution.

This is not a flame, but I wonder why you need to do this when ssh-agent
is available?

In particular, you mention GPG, which states in the manpage, "Don't use
this option if you can avoid it."  I think that the authors of gpg
consider that feature to be a hack until they can finish gpg-agent (which
is under developement).


 -Jason

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