Bug#354800: ITP: sshpass -- SSH wrapper for non-interactive "interactive keyboard" password authentication

[Shachar Shemesh <debian@shemesh.biz>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Shachar Shemesh <debian@shemesh.biz>


* Package name    : sshpass
  Version         : 0.02
  Upstream Author : Shachar Shemesh <debianpkg@shemesh.biz>
* URL             : http://sourceforge.net/projects/sshpass
* License         : GPL
  Description     : SSH wrapper for non-interactive "interactive
keyboard" password authentication

 SSH's (secure shell) most common authentication mode is called "interactive
 keyboard password authentication", so called because both because it is
 typically done via keyboard, and because openssh takes active measures
to make
 sure that the password is, indeed, typed interactively by the keyboard.
 Sometimes it is necessary, however, to fool ssh into accepting an
interactive
 password non-interactively. This is where sshpass comes in.
 .
 SECURITY NOTE: There is a reason openssh insists that passwords be typed
 interactively. Passwords are harder to store securely and to pass around
 securely between programs. If you have not looked into solving your needs
 using SSH's "public key authentication", perhaps in conjunction with
the ssh
 agent (RTFM ssh-add), please do so before being tempted into using this
 package.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=he_IL (charmap=ISO-8859-8)