The Awesome Program You Never Should Use

Posted by bob on Nov 25, 2014 2:51 AM EDT
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I've been hesitating for a couple months about whether to mention sshpass. Conceptually, it's a horrible, horrible program. It basically allows you to enter an SSH user name and password on the command line, so you can create a connection without any interaction. A far better way to accomplish that is with public/private keypairs.

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