How To Install sshpass on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sshpass on CentOS 7.
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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sshpass.
Install sshpass on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install sshpass using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install sshpass
Install sshpass on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install sshpass using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install sshpass
How To Uninstall sshpass on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the sshpass package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove sshpass
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sshpass on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
