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.

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.

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

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