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Article: 13625 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Jeffrey Altman)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: ssh passphrase prompt?
Date: 17 Aug 2002 12:24:19 GMT
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In article <usn1enyyp.fsf@att.net>,
Thomas A. Horsley <tom.horsley@att.net> wrote:
: 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).
SSH hostname /PASSWORD:<passphrase>
: 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.
But what you really want is to use
SSH AGENT ADD <identity-file>
except that the SSH-AGENT.EXE program in 2.0 is broken. This will be fixed
in 2.1.
Jeffrey Altman * Sr.Software Designer Kermit 95 2.0 GUI available now!!!
The Kermit Project @ Columbia University SSH, Secure Telnet, Secure FTP, HTTP
http://www.kermit-project.org/ Secured with MIT Kerberos, SRP, and
kermit-support@columbia.edu OpenSSL.