Hello,

I'm writing a script to automate the delivery of our code to different target environments and I was wondering if there's any way to cut down on the number of authentications that are needed. The script has to deliver to three different boxes (two directories on two boxes and one directory on the other) so it would be nice to only have to authenticate three times, one for each box. However, with the two separate directories on two of the boxes, I can't find a way to incorporate the different files from multiple local directories and the multiple remote directories into one command. Therefore, I have to single out each remote directory into multiple transactions, each of which requires a re-authentication.

I've managed to combine multiple files from different local directories to a single remote directory into one command but can't find a way to do it with multiple destination directories. I know it would just be easier to use sftp but the servers we're delivering to don't support ftp.

So, is there any way to do this while keeping the script interactive (i.e. not hard coding passwords into the script)? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.