On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 09:48:15PM -0600, Tim Serong wrote:
> 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...

Nope.
ssh explicitly opens /dev/tty.
So for it to not use the tty, it needs to have no tty ;-)
To get rid of a tty, you usually do setsid.

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