Password from open filedescriptor

[Peter Astrand]

> > -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?

ssh-agent, as far as I know, only handles keys for public key
authentication. I need to use the "password" authentication method. 
ssh-agent does not handle this, right?


-- 
/Peter Åstrand <astrand at lysator.liu.se>