Answer by Misty for Can you set passwords in .ssh/config to allow automatic...
Inspired by @Arek Burdach's answer and others' wrapper, I've wrote a wrapper that should be more robust which facilitated ssh own command parsing.UPDATE 2021-04-26: Fixed wrapper when a host only...
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Because I cannot find documentation on how to implement key-based authentication for a Windows ssh server I am forced to use password authentication to access files and directories hosted by...
View ArticleAnswer by ricffb for Can you set passwords in .ssh/config to allow automatic...
There is a slight variant of a way described in the blog on how to use sshpasswhich can be found here. Given that you have a gpg encrypted password (how ot do this is described in the blog) file you...
View ArticleAnswer by MerryDan for Can you set passwords in .ssh/config to allow...
Thanks, Arek for the inspiration...Rather than running another shell process, this is just a function running in the current bash shell. It runs a single awk command to parse the config file and figure...
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If you don't have direct access to key-pair, you could encrypt password on your local machine.The way to do it is encrypt your password using key in addition to @Eric Woodruff 's ProxyCommand.A way to...
View ArticleAnswer by Krzysztof Jabłoński for Can you set passwords in .ssh/config to...
Answering the question you asked, no it's not possible to configure a default password in an ssh config file.But if indeed, as you say, it's "because sometimes I stand away from the PC and when I go...
View ArticleAnswer by Ingo Karkat for Can you set passwords in .ssh/config to allow...
Here's my elaborate variation on @ArekBurdach's answer. It offers the following extensions:the host can be anywhere in the ssh command-line; i.e. it also supports the ssh <args> <host>...
View ArticleAnswer by Arek Burdach for Can you set passwords in .ssh/config to allow...
You can create a simple ssh script replacement in /usr/local/bin:#!/bin/bashhost=$1password=`awk "/#Password/ && inhost { print \\\$2 } /Host/ { inhost=0 } /Host $host/ { inhost=1 }"...
View ArticleAnswer by Eric Woodruff for Can you set passwords in .ssh/config to allow...
How about ProxyCommand:Host Home-raw HostName test.comHost Home User netmoon Port 22 ProxyCommand sshpass -pmypass ssh netmoon@%h-raw nc localhost %pYou can use ssh -W instead of nc as...
View ArticleAnswer by igor for Can you set passwords in .ssh/config to allow automatic...
There also is sshpass program for that.How to use:sshpass -p MyPa55word ssh me@myservor.com
View ArticleAnswer by waltinator for Can you set passwords in .ssh/config to allow...
Trading off security for convenience never ends well... Could you use ssh-copy-id from the openssh-client package?From man ssh-copy-id:ssh-copy-id is a script that uses ssh to log into a remote machine...
View ArticleAnswer by david6 for Can you set passwords in .ssh/config to allow automatic...
I use an application from VanDyke Software called SecureCRT.http://www.vandyke.com/products/securecrt/It is not free, but very reasonably priced. I have used it for years (running on Windows, or using...
View ArticleAnswer by jcollado for Can you set passwords in .ssh/config to allow...
If you don't really want to use a public/private key pair, you can write an expect script to enter the password for you automatically depending on the destination address.Edit: What I mean is that you...
View ArticleAnswer by enzotib for Can you set passwords in .ssh/config to allow automatic...
The answer of @BrunoPereira to this question shows an alternative method to connect without explicitly entering a password and avoiding ssh keys.You could create a script, an alias or a function in...
View ArticleAnswer by Caesium for Can you set passwords in .ssh/config to allow automatic...
No. This is not possible I'm afraid.The only real alternative is to use private keys but you've said you don't want to (why not?).
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I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 and ssh for connecting to many servers daily, so I put their parameters in the .ssh/config file like this:Host HomeUser netmoonPort 22HostName test.comIs there a way to put...
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