Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 05:12:09 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga <roelof@nisser.com> To: Damien Tougas <damien@carroll.com> Cc: Tony Wells <awells@journalstar.com>, Daniel Frazier <dfrazier@magpage.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Scripting FTP actions Message-ID: <3B01F009.640CC4D9@nisser.com> References: <199050000.989963136@01.dhcp.hck.carroll.com>
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Damien Tougas wrote: > > --On Tuesday, May 15, 2001 16:53:20 -0400 Daniel Frazier > <dfrazier@magpage.com> wrote: > > > ... > > I'd use scp. with scp you can utilize a ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file > > on the destination machine and you won't have to put any passwords in > > the script. > > Another way you can do this is by setting up macros for the FTP client. I > am not very familiar with ncftp, but I do know you can do this with the > FreeBSD ftp client. If you put a macro in your .netrc file called init for > a particular host, it will be automatically processed as soon as you try to > connect to a that host. An example .netrc file is as follows: > > machine ftp.someplace.com > login dude > password abc123 > ... This will still result in sending your password in ASCII over a generic TCP stream. Not so with the presented scp solution. Roelof PS even today I'm connected to the 'Net via CATV using a Com21 which allows all other Com21 users in the segment to view my data. Passwords and all. Fortunately this situation is getting rarer. Unfortunately there are always ways. -- _______________________________________________________________________ eBOAź est. 1982 http://eBOA.com/ tel. +31-58-2123014 mailto:info@eBOA.com?subject=Information_request fax. +31-58-2160293 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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