installing sshpass on amazon linux AMI based ec2 instance
amazon-web-services, linux, rackspace-cloud, ssh, yum
Solution
You need to manually download source code of sshpass,after that
Extract it and cd into the directory
./configure
sudo make install
Note :: If you do not find make then you can run following command for installing make
sudo yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
Problem
I am planning to automate aws-rackspace server migration. I am following the official rackspace documentation(https://github.com/cloudnull/InstanceSync/blob/master/rsrsyncLive.sh) which uses rsync to migrate. I have modified the code to use sshpass to dynamically provide login password while making an SSH connection to the remote server. ``` sshpass -p "YOUR_PASSWORD" ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no username@IPAddress ``` But I am facing trouble installing sshpass package. ``` Debian based Distros - Installed Successfully CentOS - Installed Successfully Redhat - Package not found (yum list available | grep sshpass) Amazon Linux - Package not found (yum list available | grep sshpass) ``` I even tried 'yum update' and then 'yum -y install sshpass' but it didn't work. Thanks,