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Old 11-12-2008
SSH through a script

I want to use ssh through a script without setting key pair in those two machines.
I ll take the password as input from user and then run some commands on remote machine. Can someone help me on how to do it
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Old 11-12-2008
A couple of options:

Net::SSH with perl:
Net::SSH::Perl - Perl client Interface to SSH

Expect:
SSH login expect shell script to supply username and password

Not sure how this would be accomplished through a shell script w/o key pairs.
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