Do yourself a favor and use public key authentication rather than passwords. It's both more secure and (together with ssh-agent) more convenient. Unless you'r

Do yourself a favor and use public key authentication rather than passwords. It's both more secure and (together with ssh-agent) more convenient. Unless you're logging in from other people's machines a lot that is (where you would need to access your private key from a USB stick) but that's obviously not a good idea anyway.