If you don't want to do that, then you might look at Expect, which is another scripting language. It allows you to program the password into the script file in a pseudo-interactive manner. http://expect.nist.gov/
-Bob
Chris Purcell wrote:
I have a bunch of Linux workstations that need to copy files to a central server via cron daily. I want to set up either an scp or rsync script (either Perl or bash), but the problem is the password prompt. There doesnt' seem to be anyway to enter a password into an scp script, but with rsync I can use the --password-file=FILE option only if the central server is running the rsyncd daemon. I'd much rather use scp than have to run an rsync server. I guess my only option with scp would be to set up RSA/DSA keys. The workstations will scp to the server as a user called "tc", not root. It would be way too much work having to copy certificates from each workstation to the server so I was wondering if its possible to allow anybody to ssh/scp into the central server as the user "tc" without entering a password? The user "tc" has very limited access and the server is on a LAN, so security isn't an issue here. Does anyone have any other ideas on how to go about doing this?
Thanks, Chris
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