[ale] SSH and passwords

[Dow_Hurst]

There is a perl script for collecting ssh keys and updating them that was a contribution for the ssh.com version of ssh.  This was back when ssh.com was the only version of ssh around.  It was probably GPL'd and submitted as unsupported contribs and not part of the ssh.com code.  In fact, I think there was a couple of perl scripts for dealing with large numbers of systems and updating keys.  You might want to look around for those as they might save you some time.
Dow


-----Original Message-----
From: David Corbin <dcorbin at enttek.com>
Sent: Feb 1, 2005 4:31 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] SSH and passwords

If I know the proper password for logging in via ssh, is there anyway to 
"programmatically provide" (like from a script) that to the ssh client? 
Please don't lecture me about security and keys.  I understand it well 
enough. 

 I'm looking at implementing a tool to help set up keys between a set of 
machines with out them having to retype passwords too many times, so the 
passwords would not be stored.  As near as I can tell, it takes two "ssh 
invocations" to provide a key to a remote system, and a third to test it.  
Couple that, with the dozens of systems with the same passwords, and it would 
be quite helpful.

Near as I can tell, you can redirect stdin, and I can see no way to pass it as 
an argument or such.

Thanks.
David
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