ssh login

[Ben Lindstrom]

On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Tomas Rendel wrote:

> sorry - hope this question is not tooo silly,
>
> but i needed to "autologin" to a remote machine
> found out that this works fine for me:
>
> sftp -opassword=PASSWORD USER at 192.168.1.1 << EOF
> cd ANYDIRECTORY
> get ANYFILE
> bye
> EOF
>
> why isn't this (sftp -opassword=SECRET USER at 192.168.1.1),
> setting the password with -opassword=PASSWORD, documentated
> anywhere?
> bug or feature?

Because it isn't a valid option?  Why would one document something that
doesn't exist?

I suspect if it works on your machine it means that someone has modified
your source code.  Either your upstream distro or your company.  Because
it isn't a valid option with OpenSSH baseline code.

- Ben