Subject: Re: Automatic Remote File Transfer
From: Troy Melhase (troy@gci.net)
Date: Fri Oct 03 2003 - 21:46:58 AKDT
Hi Kate:
You can use the ssh keychain tool for password-less scp logins. From their
page http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/keychain.xml:
Keychain Intro
Many of us use the excellent OpenSSH as a secure, encrypted replacement for
the venerable telnet and rsh commands. One of OpenSSH's (and the commercial
SSH2's) more intriguing features is its ability to authenticate users using
the RSA and DSA authentication protocols, which are based upon a pair of
complementary numerical "keys". And one of the main appeals of RSA and DSA
authentication is the promise of being able to establish connections to
remote systems without supplying a password. The keychain bash script makes
handling RSA and DSA keys both convenient and secure. It acts as a front-end
to ssh-agent, allowing you to easily have one long-running ssh-agent process
per system, rather than per login session. This dramatically reduces the
number of times you need to enter your passphrase from once per new login
session to once every time your local machine is rebooted.
On Friday 03 October 2003 11:35, KSchneider wrote:
> Hi there --
>
> I'm attempting to compose a very basic shell script to send a file from one
> server to another (remote backup) that will be automated. Naturally, there
> are decent security measures in place, so I can't just use ftp (nor would I
> want to). scp doesn't seem to have a password argument, so are there any
> common practices for this? What do you folks do for remote backup?
>
> Thanks,
> Kate
>
>
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