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Installing SSHPass

Installing SSHPASS

SSHPass is a tiny utility, which allows you to provide the ssh password without using the prompt. This will very helpful for scripting. SSHPass is not good to use in multi-user environment. If you use SSHPass on your development machine, it don't do anything evil.

Installing on Ubuntu

apt-get install sshpass

Installing on OS X

Installing on OS X is tricky, since there is no official build for it. Before you get started, you need install xcode and command line tools.

Installing with Homebrew

Homebrew does not allow you to install sshpass by default. But you can use the following unofficial brew package for that.

brew install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kadwanev/bigboybrew/master/Library/Formula/sshpass.rb

Installing from the Source

  • Download the Source Code
  • Extract it and cd into the directory
  • ./configure
  • sudo make install
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esolitos commented Oct 17, 2020 via email

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dhtml commented Oct 17, 2020

I support using brew doctor, I never ran into this type of error.

Let me run this again right now, Now I am on Mac OSX Catalina, 10.15.7

tony@Cathy ~ % brew uninstall sshpass
Uninstalling /usr/local/Cellar/sshpass/1.06... (9 files, 78.0KB)
tony@Cathy ~ % brew install sshpass
Updating Homebrew...
==> Auto-updated Homebrew!
Updated 1 tap (homebrew/cask-versions).
==> Updated Casks
affinity-designer-beta

==> Downloading https://sourceforge.net/projects/sshpass/files/sshpass/1.05/sshpass-1.05.tar.gz
==> Downloading from https://liquidtelecom.dl.sourceforge.net/project/sshpass/sshpass/1.05/sshpass-1.05.tar.gz
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/sshpass/1.05
Error: Empty installation
tony@Cathy ~ % brew install esolitos/ipa/sshpass
==> Installing sshpass from esolitos/ipa
==> Downloading https://sourceforge.net/projects/sshpass/files/sshpass/1.06/sshpass-1.06.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /Users/tony/Library/Caches/Homebrew/downloads/53e23c753c814ca762621b4d0e73b5fc21ff548e7b31d38ef31d9a7d8ca6eee0--sshpass-1.06.tar.gz
==> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/sshpass/1.06
==> make install
🍺 /usr/local/Cellar/sshpass/1.06: 9 files, 78.0KB, built in 11 seconds
Removing: /Users/tony/Library/Caches/Homebrew/sshpass--1.05.tar.gz... (96KB)

Let me show of my environment variables:
tony@Cathy ~ % node -v
v14.12.0
tony@Cathy ~ % npm -v
6.14.8
tony@Cathy ~ % sw_vers
ProductName: Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.15.7
BuildVersion: 19H2

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esolitos commented Oct 17, 2020 via email

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dhtml commented Oct 18, 2020

Okay here is the tap:
tony@Cathy ~ % brew tap
esolitos/ipa
exolnet/deprecated
heroku/brew
homebrew/cask
homebrew/cask-versions
homebrew/core
homebrew/services

tony@Cathy ~ % brew --version
Homebrew 2.5.6-67-gaa97179
Homebrew/homebrew-core (git revision a5a91; last commit 2020-10-17)
Homebrew/homebrew-cask (git revision a9119; last commit 2020-10-17)

@tdubb123
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I am getting error install on osx

brew install http://git.io/sshpass.rb
Updating Homebrew...
==> Auto-updated Homebrew!
Updated 1 tap (homebrew/core).
==> Updated Formulae
Updated 1 formula.

Error: Calling Non-checksummed download of sshpass formula file from an arbitrary URL is disabled! Use 'brew extract' or 'brew create' and 'brew tap-new' to create a formula file in a tap on GitHub instead.
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@DanBurkhardt
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Hello all. I have made a Gist with a script that includes everything you need, commented above.

Give it a go:
Install "sshpass" on macOS Catalina with my gist: install-sshpass.sh

@YoungJaeChoung
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The below code works for me
which is solution of 'shiramy'
from
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32255660/how-to-install-sshpass-on-mac

brew install esolitos/ipa/sshpass

@JinAirsOs
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The below code works for me
which is solution of 'shiramy'
from
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32255660/how-to-install-sshpass-on-mac

brew install esolitos/ipa/sshpass

works for me too!

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solution of 'shiramy' is giving a error on last Catalina for me

==> Installing sshpass from esolitos/ipa
==> Downloading https://sourceforge.net/projects/sshpass/files/sshpass/1.06/sshpass-1.06.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /Users/user/Library/Caches/Homebrew/downloads/53e23c753c814ca762621b4d0e73b5fc21ff548e7b31d38ef31d9a7d8ca6eee0--sshpass-1.06.tar.gz
==> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/sshpass/1.06
==> make install
Last 15 lines from /Users/user/Library/Logs/Homebrew/sshpass/02.make:
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX10.15.sdk/usr/include/sys/resource.h:216:2: error: unknown type name 'uint64_t'
        uint64_t ri_wired_size;
        ^
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX10.15.sdk/usr/include/sys/resource.h:217:2: error: unknown type name 'uint64_t'
        uint64_t ri_resident_size;
        ^
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX10.15.sdk/usr/include/sys/resource.h:218:2: error: unknown type name 'uint64_t'
        uint64_t ri_phys_footprint;
        ^
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX10.15.sdk/usr/include/sys/resource.h:219:2: error: unknown type name 'uint64_t'
        uint64_t ri_proc_start_abstime;
        ^
fatal error: too many errors emitted, stopping now [-ferror-limit=]
20 errors generated.
make: *** [main.o] Error 1

@yihuiluo235
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$ brew tap esolitos/ipa
$ brew install sshpass
it works

@Master-cai
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Hi @rjmaomao, you can try using the tap i created for this:

If anybody cares i created a brew tap to provide it:

$ brew tap esolitos/ipa
$ brew install sshpass

Done.

Hi @esolitos , I didn't expect to receive an answer so quickly, thank you very much. I found an article from google mentioned following tap, tried it and worked. I guess should be same as the tap you created? May I ask how can I upgrade sshpass if I installed it through tap and there's new version ?

Some years have passed and there is now a proper Homebrew Tap for sshpass, maintained by Aleks Hudochenkov. To install sshpass from this tap, run: brew install hudochenkov/sshpass/sshpass

thanks! it works. brew install hudochenkov/sshpass/sshpass

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esolitos/ipa/sshpass

it work /\

@GuilhermeDSantos
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It didn't work for me...
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zethzeth commented Feb 7, 2021

I wish Thumbs-Up wasn't disabled, so one could find the one(s) that works quicker.

This one worked for me: https://gist.github.com/arunoda/7790979#gistcomment-3569821

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I wish Thumbs-Up wasn't disabled, so one could find the one(s) that works quicker.

This one worked for me: https://gist.github.com/arunoda/7790979#gistcomment-3569821

here m8: https://gist.github.com/arunoda/7790979#gistcomment-3501587

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rlam3 commented May 26, 2021

works

brew install esolitos/ipa/sshpass

@Mugilan-Codes
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Is there no official one for sshpass ?

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mmaniga commented Jun 16, 2021

works

brew install esolitos/ipa/sshpass

This works

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u0x01 commented Jan 2, 2022

@rlam3 didn't working on Apple Silicon:

curl: (35) error:06FFF089:digital envelope routines:CRYPTO_internal:bad key length
Error: sshpass: Failed to download resource "sshpass"
Download failed: https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/sshpass/sshpass/1.06/sshpass-1.06.tar.gz

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esolitos commented Jan 2, 2022

@u0x01 I do not own a M1 mac, but from your it seems to be a simple curl https error. 🤔

CRYPTO_internal:bad key length

@pukelilu
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@esolitos Good stuff,
brew tap esolitos/ipa
brew install esolitos/ipa/sshpass

Worked like a charm.
Cheers

@esolitos
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I just updated to sshpass 1.09 and added a very simple test to ensure the installation of sshpass, since a few comments reported a failure in installing.

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@u0x01 M1 user here, update to macOS Monterey 12.3 and the curl issue is solved.
I successfully install the sshpass.

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upbeta01 commented Apr 22, 2022

Confirmed, that upgrading to Monterey 12.3 from 12.1 solved the issue.

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klin111 commented Jul 22, 2022

good

@MrSitnikov
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On macos ventura 13 installation error: Error: Your Command Line Tools (CLT) does not support macOS 13.

@esolitos
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@MrSitnikov Did you follow this step?

[..] Before you get started, you need install xcode and command line tools.

@MrSitnikov
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@esolitos Yes, it is installed, but the version is 14.0.1, not 14.1 and is not updated, it says that the latest version is installed

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sprive commented Aug 16, 2023

"[Brew] won't add sshpass because it makes it too easy for novice SSH users to
ruin SSH's security.
"

...and on that point, Brew still package tools like hping, nping and expect which allow novices to weaken security, or attack others. These are just tools.

What about the major use case of needing to SSH into an embedded device that doesn't support SSH keypairs? If your task is to automate (Ansible or shell scripts) against embedded systems, the loudest message Homebrew sends is: "Don't use a Mac for this, use Linux."

What this causes is Homebrew users pulling in "random" Github repos. At some point one of those rando repos will do something nasty to all these "novice users". Brew maintainers can claim it wasn't their doing, not everyone will feel that way.

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