I would to take in some login information for a script have written in to be used by many users. In python I set the input_raw to read from dev/tty but it fails horribly when i am connecting to the script being run on a server through ssh.
Thoughts? Workarounds?
I would prefer to avoid hard coding usernames into the script.
Please and thank you.
Try using the -t option to ssh:
-t Force pseudo-tty allocation. This can be used to execute arbi-
trary screen-based programs on a remote machine, which can be
very useful, e.g. when implementing menu services. Multiple -t
options force tty allocation, even if ssh has no local tty.
There doesn't seem to be an equivalent option in ~/.ssh/config, so you will need to create a shell script. A simple one is:
#!/bin/sh
ssh -t "$*"
Save this as ssh-t or something, chmod +x ssh-t, and put it somewhere in your PATH. Then set GIT_SSH=ssh-t to tell Git to use this script.
