ssh and passwords

Benoit Boissinot bboissin at gmail.com
Fri Mar 25 18:14:16 CDT 2011


On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Jason Harris <jason at jasonfharris.com> wrote:
> Actually,
>
> I have a rough understanding of this and the fact that ssh is asking for these things outside the normal stdin, stdout, stderr. Would there be interest in fixing this by using eg http://www.lag.net/paramiko/ or something similar. Or is there a better way to fix this?

That is not something we want to "fix". Passwords in url for ssh are a
*really* bad idea, please use ssh keys if you need interactive mode.

regards,

Benoit


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