password on command line, or other options?

Hi,

I have a client who is using rsh with ciscoconf
(http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=25401&package_id=31646)
on FreeBSD to create and keep RCS logs of his router and switch
configurations.

I'd like to replace rsh with ssh.

Ciscoconfd will let me execute an arbitrary configuration-retrieval
program instead of rsh.  The trick is, how to get ssh to work
non-interactively with a Cisco device.  It seems that Cisco won't
support an authorized_keys mechanism for a user, so I have to somehow
get a Unix-ish SSH client that will support using a password on the
command line.

Any suggestions out there?  Surely someone has already done this?

Thanks,
==ml

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