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Can I automatically login to ssh using passwords from OS X keychain?

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Mar 15, 202635859 views
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Problem

I need to login to an ssh server which doesn't support key based authentication. And I don't want to type the passwords every time. I am using OS X Lion (10.7.2). I have added the passwords to the OS X keychain[1]. Now I can retrieve the password automatically from the keychain using , however I ca…

Error Output

ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/libexec/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory
Permission denied, please try again.
ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/libexec/ssh-askpas…

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Non-interactive SSH sessions If you don't need to have an interactive session on the remote server, you can execute in an environment without , e.g. as part of a Run Shell Script action in Automator. You need to create a program that when called pri…

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