Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 01:56:46 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Jeff Royle <lists@qwirky.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Password on command line with SCP Message-ID: <20070120075645.GB87905@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <45B1BBB6.9020905@qwirky.net> References: <009b01c73c5d$a1d11dd0$0300020a@mickey> <45B1BBB6.9020905@qwirky.net>
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In the last episode (Jan 20), Jeff Royle said: > Don O'Neil wrote: > > Is there any way to pass the password for an SCP command via the > > command line as a switch? I'd like to embed SCP in a script and > > pass the password once through a command line input from the master > > script... By defauly any time I use the -B mode it says passwords > > are required, and without -B it asks for the password after the > > command starts to execute. > > The only way I know of is to use keys for your authentication. > > You then can use 'scp -B -i <somekeyfile> file1 file2 ... example.com:.' You can also use ports/lang/expect to script entering the password, but it's more fragile than using keys. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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