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[Editor's Note, Nov 29, 2021: All examples of providing a password on the command line include the risk of the password being captured in the user's shell history (if supported) or visible to all system users in the process listing.

Security experts recommend deleting all files and clearing shell logs.]

Connecting and transferring files to remote systems is something system administrators do all the time. One essential tool used by many system administrators on Linux platforms is SSH.

SSH supports two forms of authentication:

1. Password authentication
2. Public-key Authentication

Public-key authentication is considered the most secure form of these two methods, though password authentication is the most popular and easiest.

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However, with password authentication, the user is always asked to enter the password. This repetition is tedious. Furthermore, SSH also requires manual intervention when used in a shell script. If automation is needed when using SSH password authentication, then a simple tool called is indispensable.

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