sshpass
Sshpass is a tool for non-interactivly performing password authentication with SSH's so called "interactive keyboard password authentication". Most users should use SSH's more secure public key authentication instead.
| Tags | Communications Utilities |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 18 Oct 2008 17:12
Changes: Support was added for reporting the reason for failure through the program's return codes. All outstanding bugs were fixed. The password is hidden from the command line, which is not a perfect security measure, but better than nothing.
- 02 Oct 2008 17:10
Changes: This release moves away from Linux-specific functions to POSIX ones to support more platforms.
- 16 Mar 2006 13:24
Changes: This release makes sure that authentication failures are terminated early. It will better detect when the child has exited. Error reporting has been improved.
- 28 Feb 2006 03:13
Changes: An option to get the password from the environment was added.
- 06 Jan 2006 03:51
No changes have been submitted for this release.
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