How can I add password of user as alias in bashrc file?

Question

I have created alias for username and it works fine

alias yb="ssh name@hostname"

It works fine, but I also want to create alias for password, Can anyone help how can I do this?

Solution

Before we start, it's not a good thing to do... you should use ssh keys instead!

You can use sshpass, it's a non-interactive ssh password authentication.

Install it using your package manager, for example in Debian based distributions:

sudo apt install sshpass

then in your bashrc:

alias yb="sshpass -p password_in_plain_text ssh name@hostname"

Comments

[Abhinav Ravi]

For Mac : Install "sshpass" using "brew install raw.githubusercontent.com/kadwanev/bigboybrew/master/Library‌​/…"

[ankit]

Why it's not a good thing?

[Ravexina]

I'm user (A), there is a user (B) using the same machine. I can use cat /home/b/.bashrc to see what B got there.

[roottraveller]

this is not working on my mac. any idea

[Andhi Irawan]

not working in Ubuntu