2023-09-19

Passing Passwords to SSH

windows, sysadmin

The ssh client in Windows doesn't let you pass passwords in directly and Windows doesn't support sshpass so the next best thing is to use a custom version of ssh that has a flag to pass in the password.

⇒ SSH Releases

You can place ssh.exe and libcrypto.dll in C:\bin. C:\bin is a folder I created to hold these portable executables.

Now we can create a function and an alias in the Windows Terminal profile.

Open the profile by opening powershell and typing in:

notepad $PROFILE

This will open notepad and then you can add the following lines:

function Myserver { C:\bin\ssh.exe -Z "password" username@192.168.11.11 }
Set-Alias asd Myserver

Now you refresh the session by:

. $PROFILE

Now we can use asd to connect to our server without having to enter the password in directly.