Question on SSH_ASKPASS

[Peter Lambrechtsen]

On 24/12/2009, at 11:40 AM, "Jan Alphenaar"  
<jan.alphenaar at dotcolour.com> wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> I have asked a question a long time ago regarding SSH_ASKPASS, but  
> with the
> latest version of OpenSSH I am not able to get the desired result.
>
> My goal is to launch a script on a remote server via SSH without  
> having to
> type a password, because it is locally executed from a script. This  
> should
> not be too complicated, but somehow I am not able to figure this out  
> myself.

Why aren't you using authorized_keys with a public/private keys.  
That's what it's there for. Among other reasons.

>
>
>
> I have configured the variables SSH_ASKPASS=<password_script> and
> DISPLAY=nodisplay. My password_script just contains echo "password",  
> nothing
> else.
>
> Now if I execute this ssh command:
>
> ssh -T jan@<dest_host> "/<script_dir>/<script>"
>
> It still asks me for a password. This command though
>
> setsid ssh -T jan@<dest_host> "/<script_dir>/<script>"
>
> does work as expected, it launches the remote script.
>
> I know ssh should support this out of the box, so I want to get rid of
> setsid.
>
> Any help or directions are appreciated.
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Jan
>
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