sshpass 1.05 with [optional] timeouts and [optional] debug output
-- nice utility from http://sourceforge.net/projects/sshpass/ , recommended for use with Ansible. However, sometimes it hangs, e.g.: http://sourceforge.net/p/sshpass/bugs/7/ , and to debug that some syslog-based messages were added.
Current attempt is to add a timeout and see if it would be enough for our purposes to have just a few exceptions in the Ansible pool.
Note: the Makefile is a simple Linux-oriented one,
to restore it to a ./configure-based build look at the history.
Usage: does not differ from original 'sshpass', except for a few environment variables are available:
# log some data ( except for the password, of course ) with syslog
export SSHPASS_DBG_SYSLOG=1
# sets a (killing) timeout for every pty read,
# so that long reads from the pseudo-terminal will terminate the application
export SSHPASS_READ_TIMEOUT=10