Answer by jcollado for Can you set passwords in .ssh/config to allow automatic login?

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 can have a script that, on one hand, uses expect to enter the password for you and, on the other hand, reads the password for a given user and host from a configuration file. For example, the following python script will work for the sunny day scenario:

#!/usr/bin/python                                                                                                                        import argparsefrom ConfigParser import ConfigParserimport pexpectdef main(args):    url = args.url    user, host = url.split('@', 1)    cfg_file = 'ssh.cfg'    cfg = ConfigParser()    cfg.read(cfg_file)    passwd = cfg.get(user, host)    child = pexpect.spawn('ssh {0}'.format(url))    child.expect('password:')    child.sendline(passwd)    child.interact()if __name__ == '__main__':    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Run ssh through pexpect')    parser.add_argument('url')    args = parser.parse_args()    main(args)

and the configuration file format would be as follows:

[user_1]host1 = passwd_1host2 = passwd_2[user_2]host1 = passwd_1host2 = passwd_2

Note: As explained, the python script would need to be much more complex to handle all the possible errors and question messages from ssh and all the possible URLs (in the example it's assumed that it will be something like user@host, but the user part isn't used most of the times), but the basic idea would still be the same. Regarding the configuration file, you may use a different configuration file or use .ssh/config and write your own code to parse that file and get the password for a given user and host.