RE: Multiple modes? throught one connection

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Binoni MARTIN wrote:

> Well... I cannot understand why you do not do smth like this (Perl):
>
>         my $pass = blahblahblah
>         ...
>         exec (ssh ...password = $pass ... )
>         exec (scp ...password = $pass ... )

	...and have anyone on the machine who does "ps -auxwww" see my 
password?  Thanks, but no thanks.

	Whoever suggested piping the script into ssh solved my problem. 
What I'm trying to do at the moment is have a single script that I run 
once, which logs into a new server with only a base OS install on it, and 
set it up the way I want it.  At the moment, this works, but asks for the 
password twice.  But I'm sure that you can see from this why the other 
suggestions, (good as they were, especially the ssh-agent one) don't fit 
my current problem, although they solve problems that I've had other times 
(and will hopefully now never be problems again, thanks to you people).

        Thanks all,


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