Passing a password into ssh

[Brian D. McGrew]

Good morning all:

I want to use ssh in a script to do a night backup of some machines via
cron job.  It looks something like:

ssh -l root <server> 'dump 0cf - /filesystem' | gzip > filesystem.gz

Anyone know how I can pass the root password into ssh on the command
line?  

-brian

Brian D. McGrew { brian at visionpro.com || brian at doubledimension.com }
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