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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users keep an open connection with scp or another similar program Post 302546584 by Corona688 on Thursday 11th of August 2011 01:33:05 PM
Old 08-11-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by COKEDUDE
Does anyone know a way to keep the connection open with scp? I really don't like having to type my password in every time I want to transfer a file. Or is there another similar program that will keep my connection open?
Try sftp. It gives you an interactive prompt. It's not a shell, so things like fancy ls options won't work.

Code:
sftp username@host
password:  ####
> put local.file path/to/remote/file
> put other.file path/to/other.file
> get path/to/remote/file
> mget path/to/many/files*
> exit

There's also ways to setup auto-login for ssh/scp/sftp (all the same protocol technically), keys, so scp won't have to ask for a password.
 

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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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