Execute ssh with password authentication via windows command prompt

Solution 1:

The sshpass utility is meant for exactly this. First, install sshpass by typing this command:

sudo apt-get install sshpass

Then prepend your ssh/scp command with

sshpass -p '<password>' <ssh/scp command>

This program is easiest to install when using Linux.

User should consider using SSH's more secure public key authentication (with the ssh command) instead.

Solution 2:

What about this expect script?

#!/usr/bin/expect -f
spawn ssh root@myhost
expect -exact "root@myhost's password: "
send -- "mypassword\r"
interact

Solution 3:

PuTTY's plink has a command-line argument for a password. Some other suggestions have been made in the answers to this question: using Expect (which is available for Windows), or writing a launcher in Python with Paramiko.

Solution 4:

Windows Solution

1. Install PuTTY
2. Press Windows-Key + R
3. Enter putty.exe -ssh [username]@[hostname] -pw [password]