> ssh2 doesn't work with passwords (at > least not without changing server > settings), you need to use keys.
It does work with real password auth, but current OpenSSH distros default to not allowing real password auth. They use keyboard-interactive instead, and it's set up to look to the user just like password. But it's totally antithetical to factotum. I've thought about doing something to make factotum fake it for the usual case of keyboard-interactive looking like password, but it'll be later this summer before I could possible even look at it. Of course, anyone else who would like to do it would gain undying gratitude. :) As it stands at the moment, the two options are to change the server config to allow real password instead of fake password, or use the public key auth. BLS
