We Wont Add Sshpass Because It Makes It Too Easy for Novice Ssh Users to Ruin Sshs Security

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Update 2022: Unfortunately, Aleks Hudochenkov is no longer updating his repo. There are a bunch of other repos on GitHub that purport to contain a Homebrew recipe for sshpass. It's up to you which of them (if any) to trust.

Some years have passed and there is now a proper Homebrew Tap for sshpass, maintained by Aleks Hudochenkov. To install sshpass from this tap, run:

                brew install hudochenkov/sshpass/sshpass                              

Tap source

answered Jun 28, 2020 at 13:22

smammysmammy

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• Is the source code somewhere? Using something like sshpass without knowing the code is critical

  Sep 17, 2020 at 7:07

• Error: Your CLT does not support macOS 11. I use 11.2.

  Feb 8, 2021 at 7:25

• @kjdion84 This helps me: sudo rm -rf /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools and sudo xcode-select --install.

  Feb 9, 2021 at 13:54

• This repository has been archived by the owner. It is now read-only. so I can't request bump its version to latest sshpass :(

  Feb 3 at 20:01

There are instructions on how to install sshpass here:

https://gist.github.com/arunoda/7790979

For Mac you will need to install xcode and command line tools then use the unofficial Homewbrew command:

                curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kadwanev/bigboybrew/master/Library/Formula/sshpass.rb > sshpass.rb && brew install sshpass.rb && rm sshpass.rb                              

Sybil

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answered Aug 27, 2015 at 19:59

JSimonsenJSimonsen

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• In 2020 I found this as the best answer

  Aug 31, 2020 at 14:42

• Unfortunately, that didn't work for me Error: Calling Non-checksummed download of sshpass formula file from an arbitrary URL is disabled! Use 'brew extract' or 'brew create' and 'brew tap-new' to create a formula file in a tap on GitHub instead.

  Nov 24, 2020 at 13:09

• Update for 2021: curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kadwanev/bigboybrew/master/Library/Formula/sshpass.rb > sshpass.rb && brew install sshpass.rb && rm sshpass.rb

  Apr 27, 2021 at 9:27

• Brew has taps now, see some of the other answers...

  Feb 3 at 19:49

Another option in 2020 is this homebrew tap, maintained by esolitos

                brew install esolitos/ipa/sshpass                              

answered Sep 14, 2020 at 14:29

shiramyshiramy

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• This is the only answer which literally answers the question. There are concerns with that - a tiny repo could go rogue (and not be noticed right away). But it is an answer. User is advised to exhaust every possible use case first, as there could be other simpler answers (like maybe if you're dealing with a Dropbear host that doesn't store authorized_keys under home directories and that's why your staged public key was rejected, etc)

  Aug 26, 2021 at 21:16

• this is work for me on 2022. macbook pro m1

  Mar 10 at 2:29

Following worked for me

                curl -O -L  https://sourceforge.net/projects/sshpass/files/sshpass/1.06/sshpass-1.06.tar.gz && tar xvzf sshpass-1.06.tar.gz cd sshpass-1.06/ ./configure sudo make install                              

answered Sep 11, 2020 at 6:18

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Solution provided by lukesUbuntu from github works for me:

Just use brew

                $ brew install http://git.io/sshpass.rb                              

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answered Jun 8, 2018 at 3:42

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• note: this is out of date and points to an old version of sshpass

  Nov 6, 2018 at 1:17

• @DevisLucato Yes, for the one LF the latest version of sshpass, xcode with sshpass src will lead the way. sourceforge.net/projects/sshpass Good luck.

  Nov 6, 2018 at 3:51

• Error: Non-checksummed download of sshpass formula file from an arbitrary URL is unsupported! brew extract` or brew create and brew tap-new to create a formula file in a tap on GitHub instead.`

  Feb 3 at 20:02

Please follow the steps below to install sshpass in mac.

                curl -O -L https://fossies.org/linux/privat/sshpass-1.06.tar.gz && tar xvzf sshpass-1.06.tar.gz  cd sshpass-1.06  ./configure  sudo make install                              

answered Mar 5, 2020 at 9:32

SuperNovaSuperNova

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• Needs to be updated to /linux/privat/sshpass-1.09.tar.gz

  Jul 30 at 0:04

I just followed the instructions from this article and it helped,

                curl -O -L http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/sshpass/sshpass/1.05/sshpass-1.05.tar.gz && tar xvzf sshpass-1.05.tar.gz  //This creates a directory sshpass-1.05  cd sshpass-1.05 ./configure make sudo make install                              

answered Apr 23, 2021 at 11:19

Tom TaylorTom Taylor

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• Thanks, the linked article provides more context

  Jun 21 at 22:09

I found that most of the answers listed here are out of date. To install the latest, I ran this and downloaded directly from sourceforge.net, based on other answers here.

                curl -L https://sourceforge.net/projects/sshpass/files/latest/download -o sshpass.tar.gz && tar xvzf sshpass.tar.gz cd sshpass-* ./configure sudo make install                              

answered Jan 10 at 23:25

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• configure: error: in /Users/ME/sshpass-1.08: configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables See config.log for more details

  Mar 15 at 21:45

• This is better than other answers that use a specific and likely outdated version

  Jun 21 at 22:13

• Worked like a charm

  8 hours ago

For the simple reason:

              Andy-B-MacBook:~ l.admin$ brew install sshpass Error: No available formula with the name "sshpass" We won't add sshpass because it makes it too easy for novice SSH users to ruin SSH's security.                          

Thus, the answer to do the curl / configure / install worked great for me on Mac.

answered Apr 6, 2020 at 17:34

user1318024user1318024

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Just a slight update from the previous answer

              curl -O -L  https://fossies.org/linux/privat/sshpass-1.09.tar.gz && tar xvzf sshpass-1.09.tar.gz cd sshpass-1.09/ ./configure sudo make install                          

This Worked as on OCT 2021

answered Oct 6, 2021 at 14:28

Aargh, the problem with the outdated links. Simply go to https://sourceforge.net/projects/sshpass/ Download latest version and then tar xvzf it and finally cd to the dir where it got unpackedand install with: ./configure make sudo make install I suppose this will also work on every OS with supported C sdk installed...

answered Oct 1, 2021 at 8:29

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Source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32255660/how-to-install-sshpass-on-mac

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