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Reputation: 2755

How to install sshpass on Mac?

I would like to automate ssh login from my Mac.

It does have a simple solution:

sshpass -p my_password ssh m_username@hostname

But my problem is installing sshpass on my Mac.

Upvotes: 196

Views: 258718

Answers (12)

GeekInDisguise
GeekInDisguise

Reputation: 1567

Short answer

To avoid having to rely on unknown Github repositories (directly or via Homebrew taps) just use MacPorts :)

Just install MacPorts and then type

sudo port install sshpass

Details / Long answer

The idea is to install sshpass via MacPorts instead of Homebrew.

You can have both Homebrew and MacPorts on the same machine, but be careful as some packages are available on both sources, and in that case you should be consistent in order to avoid conflicts.

In such cases, normally I give priority to Homebrew, but sshpass won't be provided by them, as they explicitly say.

In fact, if you type:

brew install sshpass

Then the output will also include this sentence:

We won't add sshpass because it makes it too easy for novice SSH users to ruin SSH's security.

Then in this case MacPorts is the only choice (if you really want to use sshpass).

Some links

Link to the MacPorts project
How to install MacPorts
Link to the sshpass Port on MacPorts

Upvotes: 6

smammy
smammy

Reputation: 2830

Update 2022: Unfortunately, Aleks Hudochenkov is no longer updating his repo. There are a bunch of other repos on GitHub that purport to contain a Homebrew recipe for sshpass. It's up to you which of them (if any) to trust.

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

Tap source

Upvotes: 252

tcbcw
tcbcw

Reputation: 1577

I found that most of the answers listed here are out of date. To install the latest, I ran this and downloaded directly from sourceforge.net, based on other answers here.

curl -L https://sourceforge.net/projects/sshpass/files/latest/download -o sshpass.tar.gz && tar xvzf sshpass.tar.gz
cd sshpass-*
./configure
sudo make install

Upvotes: 12

JSimonsen
JSimonsen

Reputation: 2692

There are instructions on how to install sshpass here:

https://gist.github.com/arunoda/7790979

For Mac you will need to install xcode and command line tools then use the unofficial Homewbrew command:

curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kadwanev/bigboybrew/master/Library/Formula/sshpass.rb > sshpass.rb && brew install sshpass.rb && rm sshpass.rb

Upvotes: 196

Alvis Felix
Alvis Felix

Reputation: 49

Just a slight update from the previous answer

curl -O -L  https://fossies.org/linux/privat/sshpass-1.09.tar.gz && tar xvzf sshpass-1.09.tar.gz
cd sshpass-1.09/
./configure
sudo make install

This Worked as on OCT 2021

Upvotes: 2

user17049499
user17049499

Reputation: 11

Aargh, the problem with the outdated links. Simply go to https://sourceforge.net/projects/sshpass/ Download latest version and then tar xvzf it and finally cd to the dir where it got unpackedand install with: ./configure make sudo make install I suppose this will also work on every OS with supported C sdk installed...

Upvotes: 1

Tom Taylor
Tom Taylor

Reputation: 3540

I just followed the instructions from this article and it helped,

curl -O -L http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/sshpass/sshpass/1.05/sshpass-1.05.tar.gz && tar xvzf sshpass-1.05.tar.gz

//This creates a directory sshpass-1.05

cd sshpass-1.05
./configure
make
sudo make install

Upvotes: 5

shiramy
shiramy

Reputation: 833

Another option in 2020 is this homebrew tap, maintained by esolitos

brew install esolitos/ipa/sshpass

Upvotes: 47

Suresh Kumar
Suresh Kumar

Reputation: 712

Following worked for me

curl -O -L  https://sourceforge.net/projects/sshpass/files/sshpass/1.06/sshpass-1.06.tar.gz && tar xvzf sshpass-1.06.tar.gz
cd sshpass-1.06/
./configure
sudo make install

Upvotes: 32

user1318024
user1318024

Reputation: 396

For the simple reason:

Andy-B-MacBook:~ l.admin$ brew install sshpass
Error: No available formula with the name "sshpass"
We won't add sshpass because it makes it too easy for novice SSH users to
ruin SSH's security.

Thus, the answer to do the curl / configure / install worked great for me on Mac.

Upvotes: 3

SuperNova
SuperNova

Reputation: 27466

Please follow the steps below to install sshpass in mac.

curl -O -L https://fossies.org/linux/privat/sshpass-1.06.tar.gz && tar xvzf sshpass-1.06.tar.gz

cd sshpass-1.06

./configure

sudo make install

Upvotes: 9

SHI Zhong Ping
SHI Zhong Ping

Reputation: 543

Solution provided by lukesUbuntu from github works for me:

Just use brew 

$ brew install http://git.io/sshpass.rb

Upvotes: 18

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