On 02/24/2011 09:47 AM, Ángel González wrote: >> We don't have the problem >> with wget that one sometimes has with ssh, where occasionally a user >> wants to pipe (from "echo"?) the password into ssh's prompt (which >> doesn't work), since wget already supports other means for specifying >> the prompt directly on the command line. But of course, all of this is >> fairly Unix-specific.
> AFAIK ssh did it on purpose, for security purposes. Oh I know. But it still does surprise some people who hope to use a naive approach to feed ssh a password automatically. :) -- Micah J. Cowan http://micah.cowan.name/
