scp as batch job

numerodix · l33t Joined: 18 Jul 2002 Posts: 743 Location: nl.eu

I've been trying to set up a cron job that will download a certain file at a given interval. And I've been using ftp so far but I would like to upgrade the security and move on to scp/sftp. But somehow I've failed to understand how it can be done in non-interactive mode. With wget I used this line:

rac · Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2002 8:36 pm Post subject:

First off, you might be interested in a series drobbins wrote for IBM's developerWorks: Here's part 1. Once you have ssh configured to use public key authentication, you won't need to type passwords. You can use the keychain utility to deal with ssh-agent too, if you wish. At that point, I think you can:

pilla · Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2002 10:15 pm Post subject:

Not that complete, but you can start with

kashani · Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2002 12:49 am Post subject: scp batching

look into ssh trusts, I'd expound, but this guy has done it so much better.

http://boran.dyndns.org/security/sp/ssh-part2.html#Trusts

kashani
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Kream · Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2002 4:52 am Post subject:

emerge dev-tcltk/expect

use autoexpect to create the script.