SSH script password input

Question

So I am running Linux Mint 17.2. I have a bash file I would like to run in terminal to login via SSH into my other mint 17.2 server. I am able to do this manually no problem, but when I try using the following script, it attempts to connect to the server, but then it just sits there at the password prompt.

#!/bin/bash
ssh mediaserver@mediaserver
expect "pasword:"
send "password\r"

not sure what to do here. Online help gets me no where so far.

you should use ssh keys instead of passwords. see https://askubuntu.com/questions/46930/how-can-i-set-up-password-less-ssh-login — amc, Nov 12 '15 at 03:07
Possible duplicate of How to get response from ssh command using expect — Jakuje, Nov 12 '15 at 08:14

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 12 '15 at 14:09

There is a package called sshpass that does what you want.

sudo apt-get install sshpass

Once it's installed, you can put into your script the following:

sshpass -p 'password-here' ssh mediaserver@mediaserver

Of course, it's generally not good practice to put a plain text password into a script or into source code. That said, this does exactly what you are asking.

SSH script password input

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