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Sorry, no I don't get what you mean. What has running ssh inside a bash command substitution have to do with the problem I was asking about? It behaves oddly because it gets run in a sub-shell.
When I say this 'happens as a side effect of issuing ls', like I said, that was an example. It indicated the point in the process when it happened, I wasn't trying to say that that's the cause of the problem.
I've also just checked and the problem is independent of the shell - csh shows the same behaviour.
Anyway, this is all kinda academic as I just tried ssh'ing an account which needs a password while using the -f switch. According to the man page this won't work but it appears to go just fine.
Problem Solved.
Bryn
I assume it's due to a lack of a shell that is expected somewhere, thus forcing it to run a subshell, (on the server), works.
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