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 -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================