Yeah, but that's my question, why is all that stuff about TTYs bad? The examples basically say: bad: bash-4.4# tty /dev/pts/18 // the bash's stdin i

Yeah, but that's my question, why is all that stuff about TTYs bad? The examples basically say: bad: bash-4.4# tty /dev/pts/18 // the bash's stdin is also connected to pts/18 good: bash-4.4# tty /dev/pts/18 // the bash's stdin is connected to the new pts/36 ...and stuff about controlling terminals and missing job control, but why are these things bad? And yes, if I use either sshpass or passh, the password will have to be "on my computer" (i.e. in a script or text file), that's the whole point of it: accessing devices that don't do public-key authentication non-interactively