need wrapper for ssh/scp

[Andrew Patterson]

Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 09:37:09 -0700, Andrew Patterson <andrew at fc.hp.com> wrote:
> >Does anyone have a wrapper or example code that will allow me to use ssh
> >and
> >scp in a python script. Normally you would use some form of popen, but
> >I can't seem to feed ssh/scp a passphrase.
> 
> You can circumvent this if you use RSA authentification.

I am using RSA authentification (only).  All the ssh clients still ask
for a passprase (which is protecting the private key) unless I use
ssh-agent.  Do you know of a way to bypass this?

Andrew

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