On 8/27/07, stefan.lange@ubs.com <stefan.lange@ubs.com> wrote:
Hi Paul,
I want to use a scripted approach for executing different sorts of tasks on a couple of machines, initiated from 1 central machine. The administrative user should get prompted for the SSH passphrase only once (at start of the script), from then on the script should run unattended, without requiring further interactive input. Would you estimate the subset of SSH agent functionality implemented in Conch is sufficient for this? Which features are missing?
If that's all you want, you don't need an agent at all. Just decrypt the key (see t.c.ssh.keys.getPrivateKeyObject) and then implement something like doc/conch/examples/sshsimpleclient.py using that decrypted key. -p -- Paul Swartz paulswartz at gmail dot com http://z3p.livejournal.com/ AIM: z3penguin