It's been done. It's designed to. The trick to scripting a login is to use a non-interactive login method, like keys.
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I had to use expect to "automate" it.
The script you've quoted has a security hole big enough to drop a cow through. Passing a password through commandline parameters lets anyone logged into the system see it, in plaintext!
This is why things like scp, sftp, ssh, sudo, and su won't accept passwords through anything but a terminal. It's a subtle hint, written in mile-high flashing neon letters: This is a bad idea. You're not supposed to do this. By using expect to brute-force it into running the wrong way, you've learned the wrong lesson.
Doubly so, since the OP has already said they already have working passwordless logins, arranged the proper way: keys. Logging in is not the problem here. Please think next time before you suggest brute-forcing passwords insecurely.
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Originally Posted by robbien
That is all that is required except for the fact i want to do is automatically via a script so it can go in the cron - just dont know how to get the sftp commands to be read and get the connection to exit without doing it manually
Cheers
This works fine for me when passwordless login's arranged:
It logs in, does ls, and quits. You can have as many lines of commands as you want, just add them:
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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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
sftp-server
sftp-server(1M) System Administration Commands sftp-server(1M)NAME
sftp-server - SFTP server subsystem
SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/ssh/sftp-server [-f log_facility] [-l log_level]
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. Command-line flags to sftp-server should be specified in the Subsys-
tem declaration. See sshd_config(4) for more information.
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.
OPTIONS
Valid options are listed below. As stated above, these are to be specified in the Subsystem declation of sshd_config.
-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.
-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 equiva-
lent. DEBUG2 and DEBUG3 each specify higher levels of debugging output. The default is ERROR.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Successful completion.
>0 An error occurred.
FILES
/usr/lib/ssh/sftp-server Server-side binary.
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)SunOS 5.11 24 Oct 2007 sftp-server(1M)