wizard-ssh-copy-id

Automating ssh-copy-id Answer “Yes” and copy the password by using sshpass

Here sample way how to execute ssh-copy-id with password by using sshpass and answeringYES for the first time connection

# install sshpass 
sudo apt-get install sshpass -y # ubuntu
sudo yum install -y sshpass # centos

TEMP_PASS="MySecurePassword" # The password to pass over ssh
USER="root" # The user we going to use
REMOTE="IP_or_FQDN" # The IP of remote machine

echo "yes \n" | sshpass -p $TEMP_PASS ssh-copy-id -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no $USER@$REMOTE

You need to mark the file as executable: chmod +x auto-ssh.sh

References

• ssh
• ssh-copy-id
• sshpass

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