[CALUG] SSH question

[Jim Bauer]

On Thursday 27 October 2005 09:58, Jason C. Miller wrote:
> Working with Mr. Breen's suggestion of using dd and ssh to backup hard
> drives, I was wondering if anybody knew off the top of their heads if
> password-less login is required for this to work.  If I try to pipe some
> output into ssh (to be processed on the remote machine), does it matter if
> I manually put in the password or not?

No.  ssh will read the password from /dev/tty not stdin.