# Installing SSHPASS

[SSHPass](http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/noninteractive-shell-script-ssh-password-provider/) is a tiny utility, which allows you to provide the ssh password without using the prompt. This will very helpful for scripting. SSHPass is not good to use in multi-user environment. If you use SSHPass on your development machine, it don't do anything evil.

## Installing on Ubuntu

    apt-get install sshpass
    
## Installing on OS X

Installing on OS X is tricky, since there is no official build for it. Before you get started, you need [install xcode and command line tools](http://guide.macports.org/chunked/installing.xcode.html).

### Installing with Homebrew

[Homebrew](http://brew.sh/) does not allow you to install `sshpass` by default. But you can use the following unofficial brew package for that.

    brew install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kadwanev/bigboybrew/master/Library/Formula/sshpass.rb
    
### Installing from the Source

* Download the [Source Code](http://sourceforge.net/projects/sshpass/)
* Extract it and cd into the directory
* `./configure`
* `sudo make install`