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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] how to set up "passwordless" ssh login?

On Tue, 19 Mar 2013, Richard P Cook wrote:

> I only have an observation/comment.  Reading the man page you gave
> for sshpass there is that security issue of seeing the password in
> the command line while it is running. I read the same issue for
> AESCrypt but it has an option to read the password from a file that
> can be read-only by the user.  If you were so inclined to write your
> own sshpass you could see how AESCrypt handles it?

  sshpass lets you supply the password on the command line, or from a
file, or from an environment variable.

rday

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