Re: password on command line, or other options?

Hi
Here is something that seems to work
You need 2 scripts. a .sh and a .pl (perl and shell)
$ cat echo_pass
#!/bin/sh

echo p4ssword
$ chmod a+rx echo_pass
$ cat setsid.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl

use POSIX(setsid);
if(fork()) { wait; } else { setsid; exec {$ARGV[0]} @ARGV; }
$ chmod a+rx setsid.pl
$ DISPLAY=y SSH_ASKPASS=./echo_pass ./setsid.pl ssh user@host

ssh should use echo_pass when is prompted for password

catam

On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Michael W. Lucas wrote:

> 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