SSH Command Line Password Support

[Damien Miller]

On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:

> I agree that this would be a useful feature.  It seems that it was
> proposed back in January of 2007, but nothing came of it:
> 
>  http://marc.info/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=116921620227593&w=2
> 
> and years before that, it's bugzilla #69:
> 
>  https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69
> 
> which actually contains a couple of patches, but is still in the NEW
> state.
> 
> Any takers on bringing one of those patches up-to-date with 5.1p1?
> Any objections to the idea itself?

I think we should do something like this, but I remember having some
issues with the user-interface.

-d