sshpass - Non-Interactive SSH Password Authentication

 ( 210 days 16 hours ago)

LinuxSecurity.com: SH's (secure shell) most common authentication mode is called "interactive keyboard password authentication", so called both because it is typically done via keyboard, and because openssh takes active measures to make sure that the password is, indeed, typed interactively by the keyboard. Sometimes, however, it is necessary to fool ssh into accepting an interactive password non-interactively. This is where sshpass comes in. This article looks some of the security concerns with using sshpass. Do you use sshpass? If so do you think about the security issues with it.