Password from open filedescriptor

[Damien Miller]

On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, [iso-8859-1] Peter Åstrand wrote:

>
> 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.


pubkey authentication