Provide password to ssh command inside bash script, Without the usage of public keys and Expect

Question

I want to use SSH inside a script, but this script is not going to be executed on my machine.

In my implementation there are two limitations.

Answer 1

For security reasons you must avoid providing password on a command line otherwise anyone running ps command can see your password. Better to use sshpass utility like this:

#!/bin/bash

export SSHPASS="your-password"
sshpass -e ssh -oBatchMode=no sshUser@remoteHost

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