[ale] SSH and passwords

[transam at verysecurelinux.com (Bob Toxen)]

I do describe generating and exchanging keys in Chapter 12 of my book.
Alternatively, you could use ssh-agent.

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On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 04:31:17PM -0500, David Corbin wrote:
> If I know the proper password for logging in via ssh, is there anyway to 
> "programmatically provide" (like from a script) that to the ssh client? 
> Please don't lecture me about security and keys.  I understand it well 
> enough. 

>  I'm looking at implementing a tool to help set up keys between a set of 
> machines with out them having to retype passwords too many times, so the 
> passwords would not be stored.  As near as I can tell, it takes two "ssh 
> invocations" to provide a key to a remote system, and a third to test it.  
> Couple that, with the dozens of systems with the same passwords, and it would 
> be quite helpful.

> Near as I can tell, you can redirect stdin, and I can see no way to pass it as 
> an argument or such.

> Thanks.
> David