bad gnome-terminal or bad script?

[Johnathan Bailes]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 15:20:51 +1100, Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> wrote:
> I can think of two reasons.
> 
> Firstly he's learning expect, so who cares what he's using
> underneath? Also he _needs_ something that expect has to interact with
> if he's going to play with it.
> 
> Secondly, and perhaps more relevant, is if he's intending this stuff to
> run in batch mode (cron, whatever) then he'll need a passphraseless key
> for that, and that's as bad as a password.
> 
> Well not quite, in that the far end never sees the private half of the
> key while a password _is_ sent to the far end, but it does mean the key
> is in the clear at the near/calling end.
> 
> So yes, keys are slightly better that passwords, but not enormously
> better if it's a batch mode requirement.

Also once he gets this working he can always crypt the password.  

Here is something to read on the subject:

http://wiki.tcl.tk/3594

Secure expect.

Arguing methods can take forever.  And I have seen decent encrypted
pass expect scripts and used ssh keys as well.