user/password to shell script from interface

first i want to say thanks to everyone who helped me out with my original applescript. it works nicely.

now though, i started looking at applescript studio and thinking wow, how neat would it be to have a nice little window where i could enter the username and password and then click a button to execute the script and plug in the username and password where needed. i’ve looked at the studio documentation, but i find it confusing–i’m not really a programmer…just a guy messing around with this stuff.

anyway, the script is just a simple ssh connection that sends the password in plaintext like so:


tell application "Terminal"
		activate
		do script with command "ssh myusername@myserver.com"
		delay 10
		tell application "Terminal"
			do script "mypassword" in window 1
		end tell
end tell

i know there is a way to get “myusername” and “mypassword” to use information entered through an interface but i can’t figure out how to do it. the only clue i have so far is that variables look something like % mypassword % ? the studio tutorials helped a little but none of them do this particular thing and i seem to be too thick to figure it out…
any help is sincerely appreciated.