How To Install sshpass on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install sshpass in Fedora 36. sshpass is Non-interactive SSH authentication utility

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sshpass on Fedora 36.

What is `sshpass`

Tool for non-interactively performing password authentication with so called “interactive keyboard password authentication” of SSH. Most users should use more secure public key authentication of SSH instead.

We can use yum or dnf to install sshpass on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sshpass.

Install sshpass on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install sshpass using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sshpass

Install sshpass on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install sshpass using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sshpass

How To Uninstall sshpass on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the sshpass package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove sshpass

sshpass Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/sshpass
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4/bb5201ccd92538a91cfe671cda1e82313af67f
/usr/share/doc/sshpass
/usr/share/doc/sshpass/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/sshpass/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/sshpass/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/sshpass/NEWS
/usr/share/man/man1/sshpass.1.gz

References

sshpass website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install sshpass on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).