[NMLUG] a way to "fake" interaction

[wjl at icecavern.net (Wesley J Landaker)]

On Thursday 01 April 2004 5:00 pm, Jody Harris wrote:
> Is there a tool I can use to respond to prompts?  I need to generate
> ssh key files on the fly, but there is no way to tell (at least not
> that I can find) ssh-keygen to not prompt for passphrase, just accept
> NULL.
>
> If there is a tool that I could have "hit the enter key" for me when
> prompted, I'd be set.

This works fine for me:

$ ssh-keygen -N '' -f example -t rsa

Note that is two single quotes, not a double-quote.

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Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net>
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