How to ssh from within a bash script?

Question

I am trying to create an ssh connection and do some things on the remote server from within the script.

However the terminal prompts me for a password, then opens th

Answer 1

If you want to continue to use passwords and not use key exchange then you can accomplish this with 'expect' like so:

#!/usr/bin/expect -f
spawn ssh user@hostname
expect "password:"
sleep 1
send "\r"
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