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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting SFTP - Pass password auti Post 302200118 by bullz26 on Wednesday 28th of May 2008 12:46:51 PM
Old 05-28-2008
How to provide a password through script.

Hi Solaris experts...

Just i want to sftp to N no of servers and get one file. So i need a script for that.

OS: Solaris 9

I writen a script before for ftp, but when i am trying for sftp i am geting login screen again, just i need to aumate by prviding passwd through script.

My previous script
--------------------

ftp -i -n <<HERE
open $IPADD
user $USRNAME $PASS
cd /
get $FNAME
close
quit
HERE



I have all the server ipaddress,username,password and the file name too

Still i am unable to perform sftp script.

when i am trying sftp $USRNAME@$IPADD

it's giveing me a password prompt -> How can provide a password through script?

Looking from long time... Please guys some one help...! i have more than 100 servers where i need to do manualy.

I will very thankful to you all.
 

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sftp-server(1M) 					  System Administration Commands					   sftp-server(1M)

NAME
sftp-server - SFTP server subsystem SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/ssh/sftp-server DESCRIPTION
sftp-server implements the server side of the SSH File Transfer Protocol as defined in the IETF draft-ietf-secsh-filexfer. sftp-server is a subsystem for sshd(1M) and must not be run directly. There are no options or config settings. To enable the sftp-server subsystem for sshd add the following to /etc/ssh/sshd_config: Subsystem sftp /usr/lib/ssh/sftp-server See sshd_config(4) for a description of the format and contents of that file. There is no relationship between the protocol used by sftp-server and the FTP protocol (RFC 959) provided by in.ftpd. EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 Successful completion. >0 An error occurred. FILES
/usr/lib/sftp-server ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWsshdu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Evolving | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
sftp(1), ssh(1), ssh-add(1), ssh-keygen(1), sshd(1M), sshd_config(4), attributes(5) To view license terms, attribution, and copyright for OpenSSH, the default path is /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWsshdr/install/copyright. If the Solaris operating environment has been installed anywhere other than the default, modify the given path to access the file at the installed location. AUTHOR
Markus Friedl SunOS 5.10 30 Jul 2003 sftp-server(1M)
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