authpf shell at startup

[Daniel Barowy]

Hi everyone,

 I apologize, as this may be more of a MacOS question than an OpenBSD 
one...

 We are using authpf for authenticating remote users.  Works great, and 
I haven't had any trouble at all writing frontends for Windows clients-- 
I just use AutoIt to hide all of the details of opening up an SSH 
session in PuTTY and establishing a tunnel to the gateway.

 The problem is, I can't seem to replicate the same functionality in 
the MacOS.  If, for instance, I try to wrap up an SSH session in an 
AppleScript, I get the error "Psuedo-terminal will not be allocated 
because stdin is not a terminal."  I understand why this happens but I 
can't think of a way to fix it.  Searching the web for instances of this 
error give me pointers to use the -T switch for ssh ("Disable pseudo-tty 
allocation."), which solves the error, but appears to cause ssh to 
connect only momentarily and then disconnect.  Obviously, in order to 
get something useful out of authpf, I need that connection to stick 
around for awhile.

 It may be easier (for me) just to suck it up and have my Mac users 
open up a Terminal window and type in 'ssh foo', but being graphic 
designers, most of these people are deathly afraid of computers.

Dan