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On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Colin Harford wrote:

> I am writing up a shell script that is to be executed via cron.
>
> Part of the script involves using scp, and I want it to copy a file to a
> remote server.
>
>
> Currently I use syntax scp localfile
> user@remote:/location-to-save-to/remotefile
>
> The problem is I want to have it authenticate by itself without needing m=
y
> input.

Generate a public/private key pair and use public key crypto do autenticate=
=2E
man ssh-keygen for the details.

If you don't protect the private key with a passphrase the ssh client will
log in without you entering any input. Note this is bad from a security
standpoint.


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> Any ideas how, and the syntax I would use. (the man page is rather
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