On Tue, 24 May 2005, Munir Nassar wrote: > not quite exactly what you want, but if you use passphraseless keys it > should do what you want. that is, ssh without asking for a password. Did you read the first paragraph of his email? > 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. Not that I disagree with you; the "password-in-a-script" concept makes me uneasy (not that I know of a way to implement it). I'd sooner put my efforts into remedying whatever prevents key-based auth from being an option. Jima