Re: ssh and stuff

[Jonas Steverud <d4jonas@dtek.chalmers.se>]

Andrew <andrew@capital.net.au> writes:

> Is it possible to get ssh to run a command on a remote machine from
> another script?  I've tried doing things like:
> 
> ssh host 'command' -l user <<EOF
> password
> EOF

I don't think ssh accepts reading passwords from a file.
It requires a tty.

(BTW, if you add "Mail-Copies-To: andrew@capital.net.au" to your
headers you will automatically get a copy of all responses [with
mailers that support it].)

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