query about ssh

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knzzz
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query about ssh

Post by knzzz » 2018/10/09 02:52:33

Hi Team,

Could someone please explain what the below code does

ssh -o -n Batchmode=yes $host

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Kannappan M

MartinR
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Re: query about ssh

Post by MartinR » 2018/10/09 07:32:48

See man ssh and man ssh_config.

In this particular case a background process will be started on $host with stdin attached to /dev/null. No password dialogue is possible.

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