ssh and Python

[Erno Kuusela]

In article <ahi2up$fm9$1 at usenet.Stanford.EDU>, "Andy Salnikov"
<a_salnikov at yahoo.com> writes:

| "Erno Kuusela" <erno-news at erno.iki.fi> wrote in message
|| hmm? you can always use a rsa key, unless the administrator
|| has disabled rsa keys (which would be silly since hardcoding
|| passwords is less safe).
|| 

|   I know one example when one has to use plain password in ssh.
| This is when you log on onto AFS-enabled host from non-afs machine
| (or using ssh without AFS support, which is standard on Windows).
| In this case using RSA you'll not get your AFS token and then you'll
| need to execute 'klog' manually an type in your password anyway.

oh, right. i suppose it would be the same with many of the
other non-unix-password based authentication methods.

  -- erno