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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to pass the password as input parameter to scp Post 302606820 by Chubler_XL on Tuesday 13th of March 2012 12:22:58 AM
Old 03-13-2012
scp and rsync are designed to detect that their password input isn't comming from a terminal to stop just this sort of thing.

I would say the developers of these products thought it was a bad thing for account passwords being visible on ps listings or in human readable files.

If you really insist on doing this sort of thing the expect tool is probably the way you will need to go, or just setup public/private key authentication between the accounts (it's not that hard and will be much more portable/safe).
 

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BACKUP-MANAGER-UPLOAD(8)				       backup-manager-upload					  BACKUP-MANAGER-UPLOAD(8)

NAME
backup-manager-upload - Multiprotocol uploader for backup-manager. SYNOPSIS
backup-manager-upload [options] date DESCRIPTION
backup-manager-upload will upload all the archives generated on the given date to the specified host with either ftp or scp. It's also possible to use this program for uploading data to an Amazon S3 account. Some metadates are available like "today" or "yesterday". REQUIRED ARGS
--mode=transfer-mode Select the transfer mode to use : ftp, scp, or s3. --host=hostname1,hostname2,...,hostnameN Select a list of remote hosts to connect to. --user=username Select the user to use for connection. OPTIONAL ARGS
--password=password Select the ftp user's password (only needed for ftp transfers). --key=path_to_private_key Select the ssh private key file to use when opening the ssh session for scp transfer. Obviously, this is only needed for scp transfer mode. If you don't specify a key file, the user's default private key will be used. --directory=directory Select the location on the remote host where files will be uploaded. Default is /backup/uploads. --bucket=bucket Sets the bucket name for the Amazon S3 service backup into. --root=directory Select the local directory where files are. Default is /var/archives --gpg-recipient=gpg-recipient Select the gpg public key for encryptiong the archives when uploading with the method ssh-gpg. This can be a short or long key id or a descriptive name. The precise syntax is described in the gpg man page. --list Just list the files to upload. --ftp-purge Purge the remote directory before uploading files in FTP mode. --s3-purge Purge the remote directory before uploading files in FTP mode. --ssh-purge Purge the remote directory before uploading files in SSH mode. --verbose Flag to enable verbose mode. date Date pattern to select some files to upload, can be a valid date (YYYYMMDD) or 'today' or 'yesterday'. ERROR CODES
If something goes wrong during an upload, backup-manager-upload will exit with a non null value. In such a case every error messages are sent to STDERR. Here are the possible error codes: bad command line (wrong arguments) : 10 FTP transfer failure : 20 SCP transfer failure : 21 S3 transfer failure : 22 Unknown upload method: 23 SEE ALSO
backup-manager(3) AUTHORS
Alexis Sukrieh - main code and design Brad Dixon - Amazon S3 upload method Jan Metzger - ssh-gpg upload method perl v5.14.2 2012-05-09 BACKUP-MANAGER-UPLOAD(8)
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