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

After looking for an answer for the question for months, I finally find a really best solution: writing a simple script.

#!/usr/bin/expect

set timeout 20

set cmd [lrange $argv 1 end]
set password [lindex $argv 0]

eval spawn $cmd
expect "Password:"
send "$password\r";
interact

Put it to /usr/bin/exp, then you can use:

• exp ssh
• exp scp

Done!