I need to execute ssh from windows command line by providing password in a non interactive manner. I could implement the key based authentication and able to execute the ssh commands just like
ssh <user>@<host> <command>
Is there any commands like
ssh <user>@<host> -P <password> <command>
I don't know if it is feasible. However, there can be some work around for the same. Throw me some ideas to accomplish the same.
PuTTY's plink has a command-line argument for a password. Some other suggestions have been made in the answers to this question: using Expect (which is available for Windows), or writing a launcher in Python with Paramiko.
The sshpass utility is meant for exactly this. First, install sshpass by typing this command:
sudo apt-get install sshpass
Then prepend your ssh/scp command with
sshpass -p '<password>' <ssh/scp command>
This program is easiest to install when using Linux.
User should consider using SSH's more secure public key authentication (with the ssh
command) instead.
What about this expect script?
#!/usr/bin/expect -f
spawn ssh root@myhost
expect -exact "root@myhost's password: "
send -- "mypassword\r"
interact