Allow ability to put password on the command line about csshx

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Sorry ([email protected]) submitted this issue.

Original comment by [email protected] on 27 Mar 2010 at 1:51

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Hmm - this is a tricky one.

Even ssh itself doesn't support passing passwords on the command line, and I 
believe that is by design, due to the horrendous security implications.

To implement this in csshX would require some 'expect' like behavior to detect 
the 
password prompt (which can be different on different systems), and then feed in 
the 
password as keyboard input. I think this is way beyond the scope of the program.

A possible future option might be to allow users to run a command other than 
'ssh' 
to connect to the remote machines. This could allow users to write their own 
ssh  
wrapper scripts (that could do nasty password auth) if they really wanted to.

For now, I think you are much better off getting you 'authorized_keys' set up 
correctly. 

Original comment by gavin.brock on 27 Mar 2010 at 9:23

• Changed state: WontFix
• Added labels: Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Type-Defect

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As of this patch - http://code.google.com/p/csshx/issues/detail?id=28 - you can 
now use --ssh (or ssh in 
.csshrc) to specify the ssh binary. This means you can create an ssh wrapper 
script for the password if you really 
need it.

Original comment by gavin.brock on 21 Apr 2010 at 12:50