On Sun, 27 Dec 1998, Todd Whitesel wrote:
> What I really want is a pass{word,phrase}-free method that I can use from
> scripts, so I tried "ssh -o BatchMode=yes" but that complained that the
> passphrase was incorrect. I don't see an option to specify a passphrase
> on the command line.

I'm no ssh expert, but what I do is to not use a passphrase at all for
my ssh keypair... perhaps this is bad/unsafe, but I use ssh to connect
from my machines at home; nobody's going to get a hold of my private
key. Doesn't seem like it'd be any worse than specifying a passphrase on
the commandline :)
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