Execute ssh with password authentication via windows command prompt

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Balachandar picture Balachandar · Aug 25, 2012 · Viewed 258.3k times · Source

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>

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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

Anish Bhatt picture Anish Bhatt · Jan 23, 2013

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.

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