Execute ssh with password authentication via windo

Question

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.

Answer 1

Windows Solution

1. Install PuTTY
2. Press Windows-Key + R
3. Enter putty.exe -ssh [username]@[hostname] -pw [password]

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

What about this expect script?

#!/usr/bin/expect -f
spawn ssh root@myhost
expect -exact "root@myhost's password: "
send -- "mypassword\r"
interact