[CALUG] SSH question

[Kelly Price]

Yes, it will work and prompt you for a password.

On 10/27/05, Jason C. Miller <jason.c.miller at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not talking about which filehandle the password will come from, I was
> asking if something like...
>
> cat blah | ssh nobody at nowhere "cat - > blah"
>
> ...will work regardless of whether I have to manually enter a password to
> kick it off or not (as opposed to having trusted ssh hosts with no
> passwords required).
>
>
>
> On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Jim Bauer wrote:
>
> > 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.
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