Passing a password from a program to ssh

[mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org]

On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Norbert Sendetzky wrote:

> Hi all
>
> Probably this question was asked before, but I didn't find anything
> in the FAQ or in the archives.
>
> I've written an programm that connects to a SSH server and
> communicate over the SSH protocol with a SSH subsystem. SSH now shows
> a prompt where the password should be typed in. If an error occurs
> (protocol error or so) the programm must reconnect to the server and
> reestablish the connection. If I fork the SSH program again, it will
> require the password to be typed into the console again. But as
> daemon there is no shell and it will fail.
>
> So, is there a possiblilty to pass the password e.g by using stdin or
> any other method which is secure?
>

Why not use ssh-keygen and use that so you don't have to worry about
entering passwords?

- Ben