On 12/06/2009 07:37 AM, J. Bakshi wrote: > Hello list, > > Is there any way to provide the ssh password from a file ? There is password less login option with the help of public/private key combination. But I like to have the password less login by providing the key from a file. Is it possible ? My version of ssh is "OpenSSH_5.1p1 Debian-8 OpenSSL 0.9.8k 25 Mar 2009" > Please let me know. Hello there, You can build something using the SSH_ASKPASS environment variable to get ssh calling the programm given in this variable for fetching the password. Small shell script would be enough. -- Matthias