Have bash script wait for password

Question

I want to write a little script which sets up a socks proxy via ssh and then starts a browser using that proxy.

#!/bin/bash
ssh -D 1234 user@host #&
chromium-browser --proxy-server="socks5://127.0.0.1:1234"

If I add the &-sign at the end of the first line the script just asks for my password and then opens an ssh terminal. The browser is started not before the ssh terminal is closed which is pretty useless. If I add the &-sign the script doesn't wait until I typed in the password and I don't know how I can cleanly end the ssh session.

I don't want to use automatic ssh login via rsa-keys.

Any suggestions how I could circumvent the problems described above?

Solution 1

You might be interested in the -f option to ssh which makes it go to the background once the password has been obtained.

Solution 2

I would read the password from the terminal (with read -s) and

echo $password | ssh -f -N -D ....

Comments

[student]

What's the best way to end an ssh session started this way?

[sunnysideup]

@student kill it

[student]

Is it possible to kill it automatically when the browser window is closed?

[Thor]

Add ssh_pid=$! after ssh and add kill $ssh_pid after the browser.

[Topera]

Hello world about how to get pass with read command: $ read -s -p "Password: " myPass; echo "Password informed is: $myPass"