Supplying a password to "open" without a GUI-based dialog box?

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Hippo Man

Hippo Man
I have created an encrypted disk image that I want to open the command line, using the open program. I issue the open Image.dmg command, at which time a dialog box pops up on the screen, prompting me for the encryption password. However, what I'd like to do is issue the password without a GUI-based password dialog.

Is this possible? If so, how?

The reason I want to do this is because I ssh into my Mac from a remote Linux box, and I can only run command-line utilities. I'd like to open the volume from within this remote connection.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions you can offer.
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Apple has a powerful command-line utility for manipulating disk images calld hdiutil. The simple usage for mounting an image is this:

Code: 
hdiutil attach myimage.dmg -stdinpass

The "-stdinpass" makes it give you a prompt to enter a password for the dmg in Terminal (similar to using sudo).
 
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