Re: [Sshpass-devel] Option for reading from arbitrary environment variable

[Shachar S. <sh...@sh...>]

On 12/07/2021 17:51, Chris Barnes wrote:
> My initial use case was rsync proxyjumping through another server, 
> both of which need passwords (in my case, the gateway disallows key 
> logins and doesn't pass keys over to the next server). It was 
> convenient to load the password(s) from a .env file rather than typing 
> them myself and having them in the shell history.
>
I think the use case you describe falls under the same hospice as the 
answer I gave Denise. If I accept your patch (or the feature under any 
other name), then you'd end up running two nested instances of sshpass. 
I think it makes more sense for sshpass to be able to generically handle 
more than one password prompt. That would solve the problem without 
introducing specialized features into sshpass.

Shachar