rsync command pass password though script

Question

I am using following command

rsync -avze ssh myUser@REMOTE_SERVER:/REMOTE_PATH/ LOCAL_PATH 

It's asking for password. Is it possible to pass password through any script? I do not want to use ssh keys.

Solution

You have tagged your question with perl so...

Use Net::OpenSSH:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use Net::OpenSSH;

my $ssh = Net::OpenSSH->new(user => $user, password => $password);
$ssh->rsync_get({verbose => 1}, $remote_directory, $local_directory)
    or die $ssh->error;

Comments

[roaima]

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