Feature request

[Markus Friedl]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 06:48:35PM +0100, Peter Stuge wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 05:55:13PM +0100, Martin Kluge wrote:
> > So would you accept a patch to add a new command line option
> > (suggestion: -d) to specify a password directly on the command line?
> 
> This has been requested before but declined because it promotes insecure
> behavior. (Your system may be isolated, but all aren't and it's usually
> possible to see any arguments of all processes in the system.)

yes, but you can abuse SSH_ASKPASS for this.