I would like to automate ssh login from my Mac.
It does have a simple solution:
sshpass -p my_password ssh m_username#hostname
But my problem is installing sshpass on my Mac.
Update 2022: Unfortunately, Aleks Hudochenkov is no longer updating his repo. There are a bunch of other repos on GitHub that purport to contain a Homebrew recipe for sshpass. It's up to you which of them (if any) to trust.
Some years have passed and there is now a proper Homebrew Tap for sshpass, maintained by Aleks Hudochenkov. To install sshpass from this tap, run:
brew install hudochenkov/sshpass/sshpass
Tap source
There are instructions on how to install sshpass here:
https://gist.github.com/arunoda/7790979
For Mac you will need to install xcode and command line tools then use the unofficial Homewbrew command:
curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kadwanev/bigboybrew/master/Library/Formula/sshpass.rb > sshpass.rb && brew install sshpass.rb && rm sshpass.rb
Another option in 2020 is this homebrew tap, maintained by esolitos
brew install esolitos/ipa/sshpass
Following worked for me
curl -O -L https://sourceforge.net/projects/sshpass/files/sshpass/1.06/sshpass-1.06.tar.gz && tar xvzf sshpass-1.06.tar.gz
cd sshpass-1.06/
./configure
sudo make install
Solution provided by lukesUbuntu from github works for me:
Just use brew
$ brew install http://git.io/sshpass.rb
Please follow the steps below to install sshpass in mac.
curl -O -L https://fossies.org/linux/privat/sshpass-1.06.tar.gz && tar xvzf sshpass-1.06.tar.gz
cd sshpass-1.06
./configure
sudo make install
I just followed the instructions from this article and it helped,
curl -O -L http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/sshpass/sshpass/1.05/sshpass-1.05.tar.gz && tar xvzf sshpass-1.05.tar.gz
//This creates a directory sshpass-1.05
cd sshpass-1.05
./configure
make
sudo make install
I found that most of the answers listed here are out of date. To install the latest, I ran this and downloaded directly from sourceforge.net, based on other answers here.
curl -L https://sourceforge.net/projects/sshpass/files/latest/download -o sshpass.tar.gz && tar xvzf sshpass.tar.gz
cd sshpass-*
./configure
sudo make install
For the simple reason:
Andy-B-MacBook:~ l.admin$ brew install sshpass
Error: No available formula with the name "sshpass"
We won't add sshpass because it makes it too easy for novice SSH users to
ruin SSH's security.
Thus, the answer to do the curl / configure / install worked great for me on Mac.
Just a slight update from the previous answer
curl -O -L https://fossies.org/linux/privat/sshpass-1.09.tar.gz && tar xvzf sshpass-1.09.tar.gz
cd sshpass-1.09/
./configure
sudo make install
This Worked as on OCT 2021
Short answer
To avoid having to rely on unknown Github repositories (directly or via Homebrew taps) just use MacPorts :)
Just install MacPorts and then type
sudo port install sshpass
Details / Long answer
The idea is to install sshpass via MacPorts instead of Homebrew.
You can have both Homebrew and MacPorts on the same machine, but be careful as some packages are available on both sources, and in that case you should be consistent in order to avoid conflicts.
In such cases, normally I give priority to Homebrew, but sshpass won't be provided by them, as they explicitly say.
In fact, if you type:
brew install sshpass
Then the output will also include this sentence:
We won't add sshpass because it makes it too easy for novice SSH users to ruin SSH's security.
Then in this case MacPorts is the only choice (if you really want to use sshpass).
Some links
Link to the MacPorts project
How to install MacPorts
Link to the sshpass Port on MacPorts
Aargh, the problem with the outdated links.
Simply go to https://sourceforge.net/projects/sshpass/
Download latest version and then tar xvzf it and finally cd to the dir where it got unpackedand install with:
./configure make sudo make install
I suppose this will also work on every OS with supported C sdk installed...
After trying to run the following query with THC-HYDRA:
hydra -l ROOT -P pass.lst -M hosts.lst ssh
I get this responce:
Hydra v7.5 (c)2013 by van Hauser/THC & David Maciejak - for legal purposes only
Hydra (http://www.thc.org/thc-hydra) starting at 2013-11-15 16:35:56
[ERROR] Compiled without LIBSSH v0.4.x support, module is not available!
I downloaded LIBSSH from libssh.org and installed it to no avail. The internet seems to hold no answers however I can see others have asked the same question.
Thanks very much indeed,
user.
I was having the same problem. I compiled and then realized I forgot libssh when I tried to run it against my router so I installed it and recompiled; still it was not working.
I tried "make clean" and it worked like a charm.
apt-get purge hydra
apt-get install cmake libssl-dev
cd /usr/local/src
wget http://www.libssh.org/files/0.4/libssh-0.4.8.tar.gz
tar zxf libssh-0.4.8.tar.gz
cd libssh-0.4.8
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DWITH_SSH1=ON ..
make
make install
cd /usr/local/src
wget http://freeworld.thc.org/releases/hydra-6.3-src.tar.gz
tar zxf hydra-6.3-src.tar.gz
cd hydra-6.3-src
./configure
make
make install
I am trying to install CASAVA Bcl2Fastq 1.8.3 (developed for CentOS) on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. However, I got an error message "No support for gzip compression" and the install failed. Luckily, I found a solution for this problem:
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread* /usr/lib
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so /usr/lib
But now I got another similar error "No support for bzip2 compression". I am wondering if I can do something similar to solve this error?
I finally solved this by linking the bzip2 library file in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ to /usr/lib:
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2* /usr/lib
But I am wondering why gcc cannot find the library files automatically, is it a problem of my Unbuntu installation or some incompatibility of the CASAVA Bcl2Fastq 1.8.3 software (because it was developed and tested on CentOS)?
For those returning to this issue - if you can't find any of the appropriate libbz2* files under /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/, try:
sudo apt-get install libbz2-dev libbz2
I have been using wkthmltopdf to convert html to pdf documents on-the-fly on my linux web server. The program originally needed X11 or similar X server to run correctly, but through many requests by developers to have this run on servers without GUI, I am pretty sure it runs a virtual X server in the static version. I have been using the static (stand-alone) version of the program and it works great! I would put the executable file in a folder, and run:
./wkhtmltopdf file1.html file2.pdf
However I would like to install this program system-wide. I used the apt-get install wkhtmltopdf (just installed yesterday) and since I am running on a 64 bit system, I also needed apt-get install ia32-libs. After installation I can find the version like this:
wkhtmltopdf --version
output:
Name:
wkhtmltopdf 0.9.9
License:
Copyright (C) 2008,2009 Wkhtmltopdf Authors.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO
WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Authors:
Written by Jakob Truelsen. Patches by Mário Silva, Benoit Garret and Emmanuel
Bouthenot.
Now when I try to run the program installed via aptitude, I get the following error:
wkhtmltopdf: cannot connect to X server
Does anyone know how I can fix this? I guess this version is missing a virtual X server or something.
or try this (from http://drupal.org/node/870058)
Download wkhtmltopdf. Or better install it with a package manager:
sudo apt-get install wkhtmltopdf
Extract it and move it to /usr/local/bin/
Rename it to wkhtmltopdf so that now you have an executable at /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf
Set permissions: sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf
Install required support packages.
sudo apt-get install openssl build-essential xorg libssl-dev
Check to see if it works: run
/usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf http://www.google.com test.pdf
If it works, then you are done. If you get the error "Cannot connect to X server" then continue to number 7.
We need to run it headless on a 'virtual' x server. We will do this with a package called xvfb.
sudo apt-get install xvfb
We need to write a little shell script to wrap wkhtmltopdf in xvfb. Make a file called wkhtmltopdf.sh and add the following:
xvfb-run -a -s "-screen 0 640x480x16" wkhtmltopdf "$#"
Move this shell script to /usr/local/bin, and set permissions:
sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf.sh
Check to see if it works once again: run
/usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf.sh http://www.google.com test.pdf
Note that http://www.google.com may throw an error like "A finished ResourceObject received a loading finished signal. This might be an indication of an iframe taking to long to load." You may want to test with a simpler page like http://www.example.com.
This solved the issue for me:
sudo apt-get install xvfb
xvfb-run --server-args="-screen 0, 1024x768x24" wkhtmltopdf file1.html file2.pdf
I tried to do sudo apt-get install wkhtmltopdf but without any success.
Instead I recommend you try:
Download the latest executable (.11 rc1) :
wget https://wkhtmltopdf.googlecode.com/files/wkhtmltopdf-0.11.0_rc1-static-i386.tar.bz2
uncompress it :
tar -vxf wkhtmltopdf-0.11.0_rc1-static-i386.tar.bz2
rename it :
mv wkhtmltopdf-i386 wkhtmltopdf
chmod it to executable :
chmod a+x wkhtmltopdf
place it into /usr/bin :
sudo mv wkhtmltopdf /usr/bin
Just made it:
1- To download wkhtmltopdf dependencies
# apt-get install wkhtmltopdf
2- Download from source
# wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/wkhtmltopdf/xxx.deb
# dpkg -i xxx.deb
3- Try
# wkhtmltopdf http://google.com google.pdf
Its working fine
It works!
I found method to resolve this problem without fake X server.
In newest version of wkhtmltopdf dont need X server for work, but it no into official linux repositories.
Solution for Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS (trusty) i386
$ sudo apt-get install xfonts-75dpi
$ wget http://download.gna.org/wkhtmltopdf/0.12/0.12.2/wkhtmltox-0.12.2_linux-trusty-i386.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i wkhtmltox-0.12.2_linux-trusty-i386.deb
$ wkhtmltopdf http://www.google.com test.pdf
Solution for Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS (trusty) amd64
$ sudo apt-get install xfonts-75dpi
$ wget http://download.gna.org/wkhtmltopdf/0.12/0.12.2/wkhtmltox-0.12.2_linux-trusty-amd64.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i wkhtmltox-0.12.2_linux-trusty-amd64.deb
$ wkhtmltopdf http://www.google.com test.pdf
User felixhummel got very good solution, but repository with utilite has changed.
Expanding on Timothy's answer...
If you're a web developer looking to use wkhtmltopdf as part of your web app, you can simply install it into your /usr/bin/ folder like so:
cd /usr/bin/
curl -C - -O http://wkhtmltopdf.googlecode.com/files/wkhtmltopdf-0.11.0_rc1-static-i386.tar.bz2
tar -xvjf wkhtmltopdf-0.11.0_rc1-static-i386.tar.bz2
mv wkhtmltopdf-i386 wkhtmltopdf
You can now run it anywhere using wkhtmltopdf.
I personally use the Snappy library in PHP. Here is an example of how easy it is to create a PDF:
<?php
// Create new PDF
$pdf = new \Knp\Snappy\Pdf('wkhtmltopdf');
// Set output header
header('Content-Type: application/pdf');
// Generate PDF from HTML
echo $pdf->getOutputFromHtml('<h1>Title</h1><p>Your content goes here.</p>');
Update to latest wkhtmltopdf version from SourceForge (0.12 as of this writing). It does not need an X Server to run.
Example for Ubuntu 14.04:
$ cd /tmp/
$ wget -q http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/wkhtmltopdf/0.12.2.1/wkhtmltox-0.12.2.1_linux-trusty-amd64.deb
$ dpkg -x wkhtmltox-0.12.2.1_linux-trusty-amd64.deb foo
$ echo '<p>hi</p>' | ./foo/usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf - /tmp/hi.pdf
Loading pages (1/6)
Counting pages (2/6)
Resolving links (4/6)
Loading headers and footers (5/6)
Printing pages (6/6)
Done
$ head -n3 /tmp/hi.pdf
%PDF-1.4
1 0 obj
<<
for 14.04.1-Ubuntu https://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html
wget https://downloads.wkhtmltopdf.org/0.12/0.12.4/wkhtmltox-0.12.4_linux-generic-amd64.tar.xz -O mktemp.tar.xz
tar xf mktemp.tar.xz
sudo cp wkhtmltox/bin/wkhtmltopdf /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf
rm mktemp.tar.xz
rm wkhtmltox -rf
apt-get update
apt-get install -y libxrender1 libxtst6 libxi6
wkhtmltopdf http://www.google.com test.pdf
sudo -i
apt-get install wkhtmltopdf xvfb libicu48
mv /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf-origin
touch /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf && chmod +x /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf && cat > /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf << END
#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/xvfb-run -a -s "-screen 0 1024x768x24" /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf-origin "\$#"
END
Problem is probably in old version of wkhtmltopdf - version 0.9 from distribution repository require running X server, but current version - 0.12.2.1 doesnt require it - can run headless.
Download package for your distribution from http://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html and install it - for Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install xfonts-75dpi
sudo dpkg -i wkhtmltox-0.12.2.1_linux-trusty-amd64.deb
wkhtmltopdf > 0.11 doesn't have this X-server issue.
So installing 0.12.2.1 on a linux server.
At first install xvfb server:
sudo apt-get install xvfb
Get needed version of wkhtmltopdf from http://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html
Install wkhtmltopdf:
sudo dpkg -i wkhtmltox-0.12.2.1_linux-trusty-amd64.deb
or install with wget
URL='http://download.gna.org/wkhtmltopdf/0.12/0.12.2.1/wkhtmltox-0.12.2.1_linux-trusty-amd64.deb'; FILE=`mktemp`; wget "$URL" -qO $FILE && sudo dpkg -i $FILE; rm $FILE
Install dependency (if needed):
sudo apt-get -f install
Create symblic link in /usr/local/bin/:
echo 'exec xvfb-run -a -s "-screen 0 640x480x16" wkhtmltopdf "$#"' | sudo tee /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf.sh >/dev/null
sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf.sh
Now try below and it should work,
/usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf http://www.google.com test.pdf
I just figured out that I can simply move the static executable to the /usr/bin/ directory and execute it from anywhere.
solution for Centos7:
yum -y install xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi \
xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 \
&& rpm -Uvh http://download.gna.org/wkhtmltopdf/0.12/0.12.2.1/wkhtmltox-0.12.2.1_linux-centos7-amd64.rpm
We run into this problem inside docker containers and the above install has wkhtmltopdf with patched QT
It is recommended to use at least 0.12.2.1.
Starting from wkhtmltopdf >= 0.12.2 it doesn't require X server or emulation anymore. You can download new version from http://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html
I did follow the instructions here and made wkhtmltopdf work for me but I would like to offer a bit of perspective which I discovered while doing my own little dance with wkhtmltopdf - xvfb.
This is important because the same reason that causes it to throw the infamous cannot connect to X server error is also causing it to run with sever limitations even if you do provide it a X server. These limitations include not being able to take multiple input sources, set header and footers, etc (check the Reduced Functionality section of the manual).
wkhtmltox by itself doesn't require a X11, however it's making use of QT libraries which do. In newever versions of wkthmltox developers made a patch for QT which allows it to run with a X11.
Currently some versions are built against patched QT and some are not. You can check your version by running wkhtmltopds --version. There should be a line at the end saying Compiled against wkhtmltopdf patched qt.
So, to conclude, if you install and use a version that uses the patched libraries it should work on a linux server without the xvfb server, as I can confirm.
Pay attention: your file could be wkhtmltopdf.sh or wkhtmltopdf, check it on second step
You must copy it into directory : /usr/local/bin, make sur it's executable and add symlink of wkhtmltopdf.sh like :
1- the command :
sudo apt-get install wkhtmltopdf
2 - insert the binary in directory /usr/bin so the browser can't have permission to execute in this directory.
You must copy the wkhtmltopdf.sh to directory /usr/local/bin cause the browser have permission in this directory like:
sudo cp /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf.sh /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf.sh
3 - After make sur the binary have permission of execution like :
sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf.sh
4 - so now you can test, it's work like:
/usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf.sh http://www.google.com google.pdf
it make download the pdf in the current directory in your terminal
5 - Optional
now you can add symlink in your directory /usr/local/bin like
ln -s /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf.sh /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf
Just tell the Qt backend to not use X:
QT_QPA_PLATFORM=offscreen wkhtmltopdf <input> <outfile.pdf>
Download file from this link
Extract it and move executable file(/wkhtmltox/bin/wkhtmltopdf) to /usr/bin/
Rename it to wkhtmltopdf if current name is not wkhtmltopdf. So that now you have an executable at /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf
Set permissions: sudo chmod a+x /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf
Install required support packages. sudo apt-get install openssl build-essential xorg libssl-dev
Now, check with wkhtmltopdf http://www.google.com test.pdf
hint: detail information from this link
Just install a version 0.12.4 or higher. This seems to solve the problem.
See How can I install the latest wkhtmltopdf on Ubuntu 16.04?.
If you config wkhtmltopdf for Rails or Somethings in Centos, you can follow these step bellow:
Go to https://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html and copied the link of rpm file.
In centos server bash.
wget link_of_wkhtmltopdf_rpm.rpm
rpm -ivh link_of_wkhtmltopdf_rpm.rpm
which wkhtmltopdf
=> You will get path of wkhtmltopdf.
Setup for wicked_pdf or pdfkit with path in step 4.
This is sample config with wickedpdf. config/initializers/wicked_pdf.rb
if Rails.env != "production"
path = %x[which wkhtmltopdf].gsub(/\n/, "")
else
path = "path_of_wkhtmltopdf_in_step_4"
end
WickedPdf.config = { exe_path: path }
Restart server.
DONE.
For 64-bit Use:
wget http://wkhtmltopdf.googlecode.com/files/wkhtmltopdf-0.9.9-static-amd64.tar.bz2
tar xvjf wkhtmltopdf-0.9.9-static-amd64.tar.bz2
sudo mv wkhtmltopdf-amd64 /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf
I'm trying to use dpkg command but in Mac OS X it doesn't seem to work for me
dpkg -scanpackages -m . /dev/null -->Packages
-bash: dpkg: command not found
dns:Administrator$ man dpkg
No manual entry for dpkg
I wonder how can I use the dpkg in Mac??
Or homebrew Link
brew install dpkg
The macports version has a lot of dependencies and takes forever.
If all you want to do is see what is in the package then unar and untar it.
ar -x package.deb
You should then have a debian-version, control.tar.gz and data.tar.gz in your current directory. The files the package would add will be in data.tar.gz. The package description will be in a file named control inside the control.tar.gz file.
tar -tvzf data.tar.gz
You will first have to install dpkg. In my opinion the easiest way to do this is to first install macports which is a high level packet manager for os x and then use macports to install dpkg.
Installing macports: http://www.macports.org/install.php
Once installed you can run sudo port install dpkg.
Then you can use dpkg on the command line.
"dpkg" utility can be provided by Fink.