Hi.
I'm looking for a specific command,if it exist... i want to login from my server to another linux server,but the question is: can i doit in a one line command for ex:
usually you type: ssh "user"@10.1.1.1 and then the password,but i'm looking for a command in one line a fake ex: ssh user@10.1.1.1 -p "password" something like that.
I don't know if anyone of you understand what do i want to say ..my english is so..bad

Nope. The ssh command by its nature does not permit to send the password in clear text. What you're looking for is a password-less connection to the remote server, right? In this case you have to set up the public key authentication method. There are a lot of documents online that explain how to do that. Here is an example by Red Hat docs: http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Re...-keypairs.html

I figure that you could do that with expect, but expect scripting is insecure for this purpose.

colucix issued the right response for this issue. I would like to elaborate:

- issue "ssh-keygen" on the "client";
- the previous command, once execute successfully will create a file in your home directory (/home/user/.ssh/id_rsa.pub);
- copy the contents of that file to the "server" in /home/user/.ssh/authorized_keys;
- if both the client and the server are using the default ssh configurations, you should be able to connect from the client to the server without using a password.

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The summary from darku is nice, except for a detail: the ssh-keygen command creates the keys into the current working directory. You have to change to $HOME/.ssh before running the command.

I think it is utterly dependent on the distribution. Both Debian, Ubuntu and, if I am not mistaken CentOS currently deploy the keys to ~/.ssh if not directed otherwise.
Not trying to start a flame war, just writing from memory right now. Anyway, tomorrow I will have to gently shake my Ubuntu "sort of" 11.04 into working order so, I am off to bed.

You're right!! Sorry, my mistake. I tried both on recent releases of CentOS and OpenSuSE and it defaults to id_rsa under the .ssh directory. Maybe I've always created my keys using the -f option to give them a unique name, then I've moved them to the .ssh dir. I stand corrected!

you can use the ssh-copy-id command to accomplish the step above.