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Article: 13624 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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Subject: ssh passphrase prompt?
From: tom.horsley@att.net (Thomas A. Horsley)
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Quoting from the html docs from my kermit 2.0 directory:
>As with all Kermit's other features, the SSH client is configurable by the
>user in every conceivable way (so anybody who doesn't like its defaults or
>behavior can change them) and it includes built-in key creation and
>management tools so no external "helper applications" are required.
So where is the command I haven't found yet to customize the way ssh prompts
for a passphrase when using public key authorization? (I can conceive of
this, so it must be possible, right? :-).
Alternatively, is there something like a /passphrase: switch I can use on
the ssh command when making a connection? Or a set ssh passphrase command?
(That way I could customize the prompt with askq and just pass the answer
on).
I ask because I'm working on my master plan for interfacing emacs and kermit
and my current brainstorm is that everything would be simpler if I could
write kermit scripts that interact with emacs in known fixed format ways
without needing to build too many special cases into the lisp part of things
and let the kermit scripts do the magic they do best with scripts to talk to
wildly divergent systems and feedback things like password prompts to emacs
in a standard form, but then I realized that I didn't know how to do
anything about "standardizing" that very first passphrase prompt when using
ssh since it is coming from kermit, not the remote system.
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