[ale] SSH and passwords

[David Corbin]

I don't mean to be rude, but did you read my post? I'm trying to simplify the 
key exchange.

On Tuesday 01 February 2005 04:45 pm, Jerald Sheets wrote:
> You can build keys and exchange the keys between the two hosts.  These
> keys will allow you to perform functions between the two hosts without
> having to enter a password.
>
> After that, you can run various commands between the two including
> copies and file manipulations, rsync (using the -e ssh flag) and others
> without ever having to reveal a password.
>
> --J
>
> On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 16:31 -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
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