* This one time, at band camp, Nick Hastings said:
>
> Hi,
>
> * Alexander Steinert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011128 18:36]:
> >
> > Do you know any way to make ssh less interactive?
> >
>
> Look at the man pages for ssh-agent and ssh-add.
>
ssh-agent/add will not accomplish what the Alexander was after though,
because they use keys - and you still have to put the passphrase in for
the key (or have a key that is phraseless which defeats the intended
security purpose in this instance)
I would suggest looking into PAM or SASL both of which can be used to
authenticate users. Other possible solutions depending on the scale of
the application are htpasswd, LDAP or a custom authentication system.
I would certainly NOT recommend the use of a script to ssh into a remote
box in order to test the users password.
HTH
Greeno
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