Possibility to provide password through sshpass

[gerbenvoshol]

Hi, Thanks for writing this software. I performed an initial speed test and it provides an impressive increase versus scp and our normal parallel/rsync solution. For some of our transfers however, we require a user/passwd combination. Therefore we use sshpass. Unfortunately, this did not seem to work. Is it possible to provide the passwd through sshpass?

In the meantime, I tried some other tools and I noticed https://github.com/clarkwang/passh, can provide the passwd but sshpass still fails.

[upa]

Hi,

Thank you for using mscp!

sshpass doesn't work with mscp. sshpass intercepts in/out via tty because ssh does so. On the other hand, mscp's password prompt and input are through stdout and stdin. Please refer to Answer in this stack exchange post.

Anyway, I understand your use case. If mscp is capable of receiving password via an environment variable, would your needs be satisified? If so, I will add such a capability.

[gerbenvoshol]

Thanks for your speedy reply! Definitely an environmental variable would work for us. Since passh also works as an alternative to sshpass the need for this option is not as high as say a resume option.

Thanks for all the great work!

[upa]

Two env vars, MSCP_SSH_AUTH_PASSWORD and MSCP_SSH_AUTH_PASSPHRASE are added to pass a password for password auth and a passphrase for public key auth. New version v0.1.4 including this feature is released at Github, PPA, COPR, and homebrew.