Dropbear- argument

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Sun Jun 25 06:23:27 WST 2006


On Saturday 24 June 2006 1:33 pm, Martin Jaeschke wrote:
> It is possible to use an argument like '-pw password'?

Then your password would be viewable to all users in "ps".

This is generally considered a bad thing.

The key authentication mechanism (.ssh/authorized_keys) was developed so you 
wouldn't have to provide a password by hand.

Rob
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