For bulk administration of hosts via ssh, there are powerful tools such as Ansible for the job. However, if you need to automate ssh for a one-off task, you may find the remote host systems throwing up interactive authentication prompts for sudo that need to be answered. If you need to run sudo commands that … Bash: automating ssh login and sudo that require interactive login
sudo provides users with temporary elevated privileges to perform operations. No matter what your security philosophy, sudo is more than likely enabled on your system if even for a limited number of users. And if it is enabled, creating an audit log of exactly what was run (and who ran it) is essential to reporting. … Ubuntu: Auditing sudo commands and forwarding audit logs using syslog
The Putty suite contains several executables beyond the main application. It also has pscp.exe, a command line scp client, and plink.exe which is a command line ssh client. These clients can be used to run file transfers and commands against hosts in console mode, perfect for automation of repetitive tasks.