Question

How can I use expect to send a password to an ssh connection.

say the password was p@ssword and the ssh command was ssh me@127.0.0.1

What would I do with expect to a make it input the password when it says

me@127.0.0.1’s password:
?

The proper action of using an SSH key pair isn’t an option because I would have to use ssh (scp) to put the key on the server, which would ask for a password.

Answer 1

I always used the ‘proper’ solution, but I used expect in other situations.

Here I found following suggestion:

#!/usr/local/bin/expect spawn  sftp  -b cmdFile [e-mail] expect 'password:' send 'shhh!\n'; interact