You can obviously use RSA public\/private keypair to access servers without password, although, sometimes, it may be desirable to use ssh password on a command line and run a remote command on another server. This can be done using a tool called ‘sshpass’. You can create a simple bash script using sshpass, that can help you monitor and control multiple servers from a single location.<\/p>\n
First install sshpass:<\/p>\n
Once done, you can use sshpass command as following:<\/p>\n Just replace, the password, username, remote-ssh-server and your command with your desired setup, and viola!<\/p>\n Note: If yum says, the following:<\/p>\n then you would need to install epel repository to install sshpass. To install epel, run the following:<\/p>\n You can obviously use RSA public\/private keypair to access servers without password, although, sometimes, it may be desirable to use ssh password on a command line and run a remote command on another server. This can be done using a tool called ‘sshpass’. You can create a simple bash script using sshpass, that can help … Continue reading “How To: Use SSH Password in a Script”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[282,180,12,271,191,21,150,25,192],"tags":[283,276,288,289],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453,"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}# yum install sshpass -y<\/code><\/p>\n# sshpass -p \"SSH_Password\" ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no SSH_Username@remote-ssh-server \"yourcommand\"<\/code><\/p>\nNo package sshpass* available.<\/code><\/p>\n# yum install epel* -y<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"