Passing password in ssh
Joachim Backes
joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de
Tue Jan 22 14:44:38 UTC 2008
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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