dbclient - read from standard input

[Matt Johnston]

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 01:30:12PM +0200, Hai Zaar wrote:
> Good day!
> Why does dbclient reads data from tty and not from standard input? For
> example, OpenSSH reads password from tty and data from standard input,
> enabling piping command's stdout to remove host via ssh, like this:
> $> echo asdf | ssh remotehost cat
> asdf
> And with dropbear we have:
> $> echo asdf | dbclient remotehost cat
> $>
> However this hack works:
> $> echo asdf > $(tty) | dbclient remotehost cat
> asdf
> $>
> But we not always have a tty (i.e. dbclient run from system script).
> Can I force dbclient to read data from stdin? (Or is there any
> workaround of this problem?)

It looks like a bug with dbclient closing the connection too
soon - I'll investigate.

Matt