I am writing a script which will take a password as an arg and need to use that password when for sshing around. For various reasons I cannot use key based authentication. However, ssh does not appear to take stdin: brock at brockwork brock $ echo password | ssh localhost Pseudo-terminal will not be allocated because stdin is not a terminal. Password: -bash: line 1: password: command not found brock at brockwork brock $ and brock at brockwork brock $ ssh localhost << END > password > END Pseudo-terminal will not be allocated because stdin is not a terminal. Password: Thus, does anyone know how to give ssh a password in a script? Thanks