Hardcoding Passwords in Scripts

is actually very bad idea:-) Let’s say that you have a script which needs to SSH to remote host and get some data. Hardcoded password is bad, oh, very bad idea. What you could do is this: 1. Issue ssh-keygen command on local machine (the one where your script is executed) 2. Issue ssh-keygen command on remote machine (the one which your script need to access to) 3. On remote machine, create file ~/.ssh/authorized_keys with 0600 permissions and paste into it first (and only) line  from ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub, stored in LOCAL machine. 4. Repeat those steps every time you change your public key You should be able to log in to remote machine without passing password.