SSH uses 2 different keys. One is used by the server to authenticate itself, so that the user/client can recognize it if someone tries to pull a man-in-the-middle attack.
The other is used by the user to authenticate himself to the server. For that you need to put the contents of your id_rsa.pub into the file .ssh/authorized_keys2 on the remote server. Easiest way to get the remote fingerprint and send up your public key at the same time would be
I have to write an automated sftp script which uses password authentication method to access the remote server. I want to pass the password as a parameter or to be included in the script itself, so that when i run the sftp script, it should not prompt me to enter the password.
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Hello all,
I've written an automated SFTP script to work with the Expect command. It recently occurred to me however, that if the client side box does not have the known host entry for the server, it will not work correctly. So I have added an expect for the known host prompt, and that part... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I'm new to linux/unix and presently at my work i have wrote a script that goes out from a unix host connects to a transfer proxy using sftp (username & password) with internal IP address as scp is disabled on the server..
Now my problem is that when i try and get a bigger file sftp will... (1 Reply)
Hi everyone,
i'm having a little trouble wih my first shell script ever.
So the point of that script is to:
-Archive Zip files in a directory
-Remove txt files from that directory
-connect through sftp and a rsa key to a remote server
-download a couple of files
-unzip downloaded files
... (0 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I am working on a shell script, which gets log files from a windows machine.
Problem:
1. My server doesn't support FTP, so i am using SFTP
2. I am not able to automate sftp using public key generation technique, because i need to access many windows machines using this script. ... (0 Replies)
Hi All,
To transfer the files, from one server to another through SFTP, i am using below code in my script.
cur_dt=$1
echo "cd /inbox/" >> SFTP.txt # folder of traget server
echo "mput /opt/myfile/inbox/*_${cur_dt}_*.* " >> SFTP.txt # to get files from /opt/myfile for given date and... (1 Reply)
Hi Newbie here
I am having problems with automating sFTP transfers.
Just to save time - SCP is not an option as sFTP is stipulated by controllers of far end server.
Ineed to automate sFTP transfer of a single file, once a day to a remote server to which i have no control over.
I am using:... (6 Replies)
Hi,
I have situation where i need to automate transferring 10000+ files using sftp.
while read line
do
if ; then
echo "-mput /home/student/Desktop/folder/$line/* /cygdrive/e/folder/$line/">>sftpCommand.txt
fi
done< files.txt
sftp -b sftpCommand.txt stu@192.168.2.1
The above... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I am currently looking at automating the steps that I follow to download log files from putty to desktop.
I connect to a client's machine through citrix desktop. I am required to download quite a number of application logs to identfiy the issues in production.
Steps that is being... (3 Replies)
Hello,
I have a weird issue, I have RHEL 5.7 running with openssh5.2 where sftpgroup OS group is chroot. I see the difference difference in timestamp on files, when I login via ssh and SFTP, I see four hour difference, is something missing in my configuration.
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