How to pass password automatically for rsync SSH command?

Question

I need to do rsync by ssh and want to do it automatically without the need of passing password for ssh manually.

Answer 1

Use "sshpass" non-interactive ssh password provider utility

On Ubuntu

 sudo apt-get install sshpass

Command to rsync

 /usr/bin/rsync -ratlz --rsh="/usr/bin/sshpass -p password ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -l username" src_path  dest_path