Execute ssh with password authentication via windows command prompt

Question

I need to execute ssh from windows command line by providing password in a non interactive manner. I could implement the key based authenti

Answer 1

The sshpass utility is meant for exactly this. First, install sshpass by typing this command:

sudo apt-get install sshpass

Then prepend your ssh/scp command with

sshpass -p '' 

This program is easiest to install when using Linux.

User should consider using SSH's more secure public key authentication (with the ssh command) instead.