Re: sftp in shell script

[ On Friday, November 1, 2002 at 14:54:25 (+0000), Conor Daly wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: sftp in shell script
>
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 07:58:02PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
> Gerhard Dieringer thought:
> > Hi,
> >
> > is it possible to answer the password prompt of sftp in a shell-scrpt?
> >
> > echo my_password | sftp host_name
> >
> > does not work.
> >
> > I also didn't find a -pw option.
>
> AFAICT, you need an expect wrapper.

Putting the password in an expect script is silly.

> Otherwise, set up non-interactive
> authentication.

... and use scp, not that silly interactive sftp interface.

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