Automatically passing ssh password in scripts especially to ESX where passwordless ssh is hard

First you need to install sshpass. Ubuntu/Debian: apt-get install sshpass Fedora/CentOS: yum install sshpass Arch: pacman -S sshpass Example: sshpass -p “YOUR_PASSWORD” ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no YOUR_USERNAME@SOME_SITE.COM Custom port example: sshpass -p “YOUR_PASSWORD” ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no YOUR_USERNAME@SOME_SITE.COM:2400 from : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12202587/automatically-enter-ssh-password-with-script   This works better for me though for sshfs: echo $mypassword | sshfs -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no user@host mountpoint -o workaround=rename…

fail to mount ntfs in BSD

[root@ftp /mnt/test]# ntfs-3g /dev/da10s1 /mnt/test fuse: failed to open fuse device: No such file or directory kldload fuse That’s a missing module needs loading. nJoy 😉