Passing a password into ssh

[James Kosin]

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Brian D. McGrew wrote:

>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 }
>--
>
>>Those of you who think you know it all,
>
> really annoy those of us who do!
>
>
Brian,

DON'T DO IT THIS WAY.

If you need to do a backup, try setting up the system's cron job to do
the backup.  Or if doing a remote backup to a remote drive, try the
utilities that allow you to do remote backups and don't do this.

James Kosin
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