Passing a password into ssh

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, 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?

generate a ssh keypair without a password and put the public key in 
root/.ssh/authorized_keys on the machine you want to ssh into. then you 
won't need to pass a password.

joelja

> -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!
>
>
>

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