How to install sshpass on Windows through Cygwin?

Question

In the packages window of CygWin, when I type sshpass, nothing comes up. I tried installing similar packages like openssh etc hoping one of them contains sshpass but no luck.

Encrust

Answer 1

sshpass is not available as Cygwin package. This means that you need to build and install from source. To build sshpass on Windows (Cygwin):

$ curl -LO http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sshpass/sshpass-1.06.tar.gz
$ md5sum sshpass-1.06.tar.gz
f59695e3b9761fb51be7d795819421f9

Build and install to /usr/local/bin:

$ tar xvf sshpass-1.06.tar.gz
$ cd sshpass-1.06
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

Which installs two files

• the executable /usr/local/bin/sshpass
• man page /usr/local/share/man/man1/sshpass.1

Your Cygwin install needs to have the required tools: curl to download, tar to extract, and autoconf, make and gcc to build. I'll assume reader familiarity with installing packages on Cygwin.

Giovannagiovanni

@Andrew do share your experience... I found that I lost output when I used sshpass from a Windows Command Prompt. It works fine from a Cygwin terminal, however. – Giovannagiovanni

If you wish to use sshpass from a Windows command prompt then you may find cygnative useful. – Giovannagiovanni

I found that I don't even have sudo installed in cygwin, but I was able to get it going without sudo.. :) – Endocentric

@Endocentric Can you please elaborate on how you did it? – Ashleighashlen

I see this. cygwin.com/packages/summary/sshpass.html . I just ran C:\p2\cygpacks\setup-x86_64.exe -q -n -N -d -R c:\p2\cygwin64 -l c:\p2\cygpacks\cygwin64localpackages -s http://cygwin.mirror.constant.com -P sshpass . It installed sshpass. – Larousse

Answer 2

sshpass is not available as cygwin package. This means that you need to build and install from source. See for reference on existing alternative

https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-02/msg00042.html

Freeforall

Thanks matzeri for reply. How can I build and install on Windows? Could you refer me to some tutorial. – Encrust

Answer 3

This does not directly answer the question "How to install sshpass on Windows?", but can be much easier solution if you need to automatically enter the password when ssh-ing to a machine on Windows system, you can use Plink (part of PuTTY).

plink your_username@yourhost -pw your_password

Moxley

Answer 4

Window 10 comes with Linux subsystem, you can install a favor of Linux through Windows Store. Then all Linux commands comes easily. sshpass can be easily installed in the subsystem. WSL(Windwos Subsystem for Linux) is the future.

Lanate

Sure, but I shouldn't need to start (or set up, if I don't have one) a WSL installation, just to automatically use a password with SSH, if I already have a working SSH client on Windows. – Alewife