07-16-2013
A lot of scripts that want to pass a password are stymied by programs that read the tty for the password, not stdin. Sometimes you need an expect or ssh session to create a terminal from a daemon script with no tty, either on the local system or the remote system. However, if you have no contol over the ssh script or the script it calls, then you are stuck.
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