[Info-vax] SSH

[Dean Woodward]

On 2/19/2011 5:14 AM, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
> In article
>> 3) There is no way to programatically pass a password to SSH (or SCP
>> or SFTP) and this short-coming is "by design" because the developers
>> wanted to stop people from placing passwords in scripts.
>
> Seems like a good idea.

You'd think, huh?

IME 95% of system managers can't intelligently discuss what key format 
(SSH2 or OpenSSH) their system uses.

Once you get it working, it's pretty good. Until the remote system 
mangler generates a new host key...