On 5/27/2010 at 10:24 PM, Lars Ellenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:46:14AM +0200, Matthias Ferdinand wrote: > > --On Wednesday, May 26, 2010 12:00:02 -0600 > > [email protected] wrote: > > >> OK, but it'd be still better/easier to just use ssh with public > > >> key authentication. For telnet, there is a python plugin > > >> ibmrsa-telnet which could be modified for iLO. > > > > > > DISPLAY=dummy SSH_ASKPASS=/bin/my_cat_passwd_file.sh ssh somewhere > > > my_cat_passwd_file.sh: > > ># !/bin/sh > > > cat /etc/passwd_file > > > > > > /etc/passwd_file: 0600 root root containing your password ;-) > > > thank you for your hints. SSH_ASKPASS did not work for me (using password > > auth), ssh keeps prompting for the password. Apparently SSH_ASKPASS is for > > passphrases only. > > No. But as long as ssh _does_ have a tty, it will ask for the password > on the tty ;-) > Only if it does not find a tty, it will use the askpass hook. > > > but as the script now does the job I think will just leave it at that. > > It needs to work for you, that is what matters.
If you still want to fiddle around with SSH_ASKPASS, it might help to redirect stdin from /dev/null... Regards, Tim -- Tim Serong <[email protected]> Senior Clustering Engineer, OPS Engineering, Novell Inc. _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
