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There's an easy way, and a really easy way (Score:2)
Since that's probably going to be a fairly common scenario, I'll need to deal with it now.
No you don't, just learn from history: "No patch? Oh, well. Take care." :)
Seriously, if you decide you want to tackle it, I don't think it will be too hard. Expect with undef timeout, if you get eof, the command completed without asking for a password, if you get a password prompt, send the password and then expect for eof. Don't forget to omit any steps you might previously have taken to insist that the
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