[Info-vax] ssh error

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <qkjfqp$1mph$2 at gioia.aioe.org>,
helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de (Phillip Helbig (undress to reply))
writes: 

> In article <qkj3du$jrp$1 at panix2.panix.com>, kludge at panix.com (Scott
> Dorsey) writes: 
> 
> > >It worked when you used a terminal.  It did NOT work when you did not 
> > >use a terminal.  SSH thinks it cannot prompt for a password unless 
> > >you're on a terminal.
> > 
> > It shouldn't, because you should never, ever have passwords embedded into
> > scripts.
> 
> I don't.
> 
> > Presumably if this is the issue that it will work fine with key authentication
> > instead of passwords?
> 
> I'm using keys.
> 
> Perhaps I should investigate the batchmode=yes stuff.

Yep, that solves it.

Hopefully, I will be able to move to x86 VMS soon and ssh and so on will 
work better there.  :-|