Re: passing password to ssh on command line

From: Hrvoje Spoljar (fcbyr_at_k.cos.ue)
Date: 02/03/05

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    Michael McGarry <replytogroup@nospam.org> na grupi comp.security.ssh pise:
    > Hi,
    >
    > Is there a way to give the password to ssh as a command line argument?

    check out expect, you can script things like

    #!/usr/bin/expect -f
    spawn ssh user@somehost
    expect "Password
    send "$argv\r"

    call it like ./script password and c what happens ;-) 

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