Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 01:50:30 -0500 From: Jeff Royle <lists@qwirky.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Password on command line with SCP Message-ID: <45B1BBB6.9020905@qwirky.net> In-Reply-To: <009b01c73c5d$a1d11dd0$0300020a@mickey> References: <009b01c73c5d$a1d11dd0$0300020a@mickey>
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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. > > Thanks! > > _______________________________________________ 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:.' Hope that helps. Cheers, Jeff
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