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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting SFTP scripting - help required Post 302137540 by b0bbins on Tuesday 25th of September 2007 02:34:44 PM
Old 09-25-2007
SFTP scripting - help required
Hi all, First post so go easy guys.......

I've seen this asked before on some other forums but never properly/fully answered.

My problem involves the automation of an SFTP script sending from F-Secure (ssh2) HP-UX, to Windows FTP server (ssh2) running VShell. We've set up SSH keys but while they do authenticate when I connect it drops immediately saying that "user has no roots specifed". Strangely this error does not occur when authenticating using the password.

However, this is not my problem. Assuming that SSH keys can not be used (wether there is a solution or not), is there any way to include the password as an argument in an SFTP script ?
I've attempted to include the password in a batchfile (running sftp -B), without success.

sftp -B /dev/stdin remoteuser@remotehost <<-EOF
password
put $FILE
quit
EOF

SCP will also not work because (I think) the remote username has a backslash in it e.g. abcd\b0bbins . The error returned here says "invalid username abcd\b0bbins" and drops connection.

Is there any solution without instaling 'expect' or similar

Thanks in advance
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

sftp-server

SFTP-SERVER(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 					    SFTP-SERVER(8)

NAME

     sftp-server -- SFTP server subsystem

SYNOPSIS

     sftp-server [-ehR] [-f log_facility] [-l log_level] [-u umask]

DESCRIPTION

     sftp-server is a program that speaks the server side of SFTP protocol to stdout and expects client requests from stdin.  sftp-server is not
     intended to be called directly, but from sshd(8) using the Subsystem option.

     Command-line flags to sftp-server should be specified in the Subsystem declaration.  See sshd_config(5) for more information.

     Valid options are:

     -e      Causes sftp-server to print logging information to stderr instead of syslog for debugging.

     -f log_facility
	     Specifies the facility code that is used when logging messages from sftp-server.  The possible values are: DAEMON, USER, AUTH,
	     LOCAL0, LOCAL1, LOCAL2, LOCAL3, LOCAL4, LOCAL5, LOCAL6, LOCAL7.  The default is AUTH.

     -h      Displays sftp-server usage information.

     -l log_level
	     Specifies which messages will be logged by sftp-server.  The possible values are: QUIET, FATAL, ERROR, INFO, VERBOSE, DEBUG, DEBUG1,
	     DEBUG2, and DEBUG3.  INFO and VERBOSE log transactions that sftp-server performs on behalf of the client.	DEBUG and DEBUG1 are
	     equivalent.  DEBUG2 and DEBUG3 each specify higher levels of debugging output.  The default is ERROR.

     -R      Places this instance of sftp-server into a read-only mode.  Attempts to open files for writing, as well as other operations that
	     change the state of the filesystem, will be denied.

     -u umask
	     Sets an explicit umask(2) to be applied to newly-created files and directories, instead of the user's default mask.

     For logging to work, sftp-server must be able to access /dev/log.	Use of sftp-server in a chroot configuration therefore requires that
     syslogd(8) establish a logging socket inside the chroot directory.

SEE ALSO

     sftp(1), ssh(1), sshd_config(5), sshd(8)

     T. Ylonen and S. Lehtinen, SSH File Transfer Protocol, draft-ietf-secsh-filexfer-00.txt, January 2001, work in progress material.

HISTORY

     sftp-server first appeared in OpenBSD 2.8.

AUTHORS

     Markus Friedl <markus@openbsd.org>

BSD
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