[ILUG] Passing a password to scp

[Ruairi Newman]

Okay, guys point taken ;)

Thanks,

Ruairi


Mike Knell (mike.knell at cs.tcd.ie) blathered:
> 
> 
> > I've written a script that takes a file, gzips it and is supposed to scp
> > it up to a server on the web.  I say supposed to because I can't figure
> > out how exactly to pass a password to scp automatically.
> 
> The best suggestion here is that RSA authentication is your friend. It's
> possible you can do something dodgy with scripts, but the far, far
> better option is to set up RSA keys and authenticate things that way -
> see the man page for ssh.
> 
> Passwords in scripts give me the willies.
> 
> m.
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