On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 07:22:09PM -0500, Brock Noland wrote: > I am writing a script which will take a password as an arg and need to > use that password when for sshing around. For various reasons I cannot > use key based authentication. You can use lsh, an openssh alternative*, to do this. lsh supports calling a seperate program for the password input (--askpass=/path/to/program). You could easily ask for the password in the first step, dump it to a short (properly chmod!) bash script that simply prints the password when called, then call that bash script with the --askpass setting. Obviously there are more secure ways of doing this. * I do not advocate the use of lsh for anything other than this, it's too debian-like. -- Matthew S. Hallacy http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203