Use Expect in a Bash script to provide a password to an SSH command

Question

I\'m trying to use Expect in a Bash script to provide the SSH password. Providing the password works, but I don\'t end up in the SSH session as I should. It goes back strait

Answer 1

sshpass is broken if you try to use it inside a Sublime Text build target, inside a Makefile. Instead of sshpass, you can use passh: https://github.com/clarkwang/passh

With sshpass you would do:

sshpass -p pa$$word ssh user@host

With passh you would do:

passh -p pa$$word ssh user@host

Note: Do not forget to use -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no. Otherwise, the connection will hang on the first time you use it. For example:

passh -p pa$$word ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no user@host

References:

1. Send command for password doesn't work using Expect script in SSH connection
2. How can I disable strict host key checking in ssh?
3. How to disable SSH host key checking
4. scp without known_hosts check
5. pam_mount and sshfs with password authentication