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mgild
mgild

Reputation: 794

ssh commands and password requests in a bash script

I am trying to make a script that will sync with another folder over a ssh connection. What I want to do is sync my local folder with the folder over ssh and then perform an ssh login. For these two commands I need to enter the same password and it's a little annoying so I am trying to make a script for it to put my password into a temporary variable and pass that variable to the two spots it is requested. This is what I have.

read -s -p "Enter Password: " mypassword && echo "$mypassword" 
| rsync -vz -r `~/Desktop/Market_Maker/Market_Maker [email protected]:~/281_Projects 
&& echo | "$mypassword" ssh [email protected]`

What this ends up doing is gives me 3 password prompts and does not work at all. What is wrong with the script?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 755

Answers (1)

stmfunk
stmfunk

Reputation: 683

Consider using sshpass to store your password for a specific login. Once installed you can run the command:

sshpass -p 'PASSWORD' ssh [email protected]

to login to the server. I think that might be the functionality you are looking for. You might also consider setting the RSYNC_PASSWORD variable to be the password in the script.

If you want to avoid storing your password in the script you can prompt for it using:

read -s RSYNC_PASSWORD

This will store the password for the duration of the scripts execution.

Upvotes: 2

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