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Old 11-01-2010
Network ssh command with password
hi:
how can i use ssh with password in the command line .
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Old 11-01-2010
ssh does not accept password on command line (and it won't accept it piped into standard input either). The correct way to use ssh without passwords (eg within an automatted script or cronjob) is to use public/private key authentication.

There are heaps of articles on how this is done, a quick google search turned up this Password-less logins with OpenSSH
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Old 11-01-2010
it seems as if the pipe does not work here?
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Old 11-01-2010
That's correct a security feature of ssh insists that input comes from a terminal not piped input. This is good because it avoids account passwords being kept in places that are insecure, especially as there is a way to do this properly (ie with public/private keys).
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Old 11-01-2010
thanks a lot
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