Question on SSH_ASKPASS

[Roumen Petrov]

Jan Alphenaar 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.
>
>
> 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

Look like old request "(generalised-askpass) Generalize SSH_ASKPASS"
https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69

Roumen


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