auto login and logout

[Brian Hamon]

If the switches support RSA Authentication, run an agent on the client side 
and use it. Since most ssh-enabled appliances seem to implement only 
password-based authentication, you must resort to other (less secure) means.

PuTTY allows the password to be passed on the command line (plink.exe).

If you must use OpenSSH, the only thing left to do is to modify the source 
code to allow OpenSSH to write the password prompt over stdout and read the 
password from stdin. This bypasses some security measures in OpenSSH, so be 
sure to mark your changed version appropriately. With this change, you can 
parse the child-to-parent pipe for the password prompt, and send the 
cleartext password down the parent-to-child pipe.

At 07:32 AM 6/28/2002, Karpowicz, Theresa wrote:
>I am a test engineer, testing SSH server implementation of SSH into one of 
>our switches.
>
>
>How can I  automate the login and logout of an SSH client from the command 
>line?
>I have in a script file the following, but I get prompted for the password.
>How can I automate the password and the exit.
>
>
>ssh2 -l $1 $2   (ssh2 -l <username> <host ip>)
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>
>
>Theresa C. Karpowicz
>Software Engineer
>
>Enterasys Networks
>Phone:  (800) 332-9401 x41263
>Email:   terryk<mailto:terryk at enterasys.com>@enterasys.com
>www:    <http://www.enterasys.com/>http://www.enterasys.com/
>