On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:41:46 +0000 tony.chamberlain@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > A second question (acutally alternative). Any other way to do this: > > ssh -l login host cmd > > That is, execute a command on a remote host, other than ssh? > Might be an alternative. There are so many alternatives you'll never be able to decide which to use :-). If you have control over both server and client, you can setup plain rsh-like hostkey or hostname only authorization (but you'd really want both systems behind a firewall for that). You can write your own substitute program to stick in the environment variable SSH_ASKPASS which can retrieve your password in some alternate (hopefully secure) way and pass it to ssh when ssh asks. You can come up with a way to arrange for the batch job to known about your ssh-agent, and load your keys into the agent before the batch job runs. Probably lots more as well...
