Passing password in ssh

[Joachim Backes]

tony.chamberlain at lemko.com wrote:
> 
> 
> Any way to pass a password (on command line) in SSH?
> 
> Sure you can use the ssh-keygen and set up public and
> private keys and all that.  Problem is, in batch mode
> something can go wrong.  You might not have the entry
> in the hosts file, or something.  And then your batch program
> will freeze waiting for a password or human response to type
> "yes".  It would be good to do like ssh -l login -p password blah blah blah,

Dangereous! Somebody calling "ps -eaf" could see this password!

> but I can't figure out how.
> 
> A second question (acutally alternative).  Any other way to do this:
> 
>      ssh -l login host cmd
> 
> That is, execute a command on a remote host, other than ssh?
> Might be an alternative.
> 


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