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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting SFTP script still asking password Post 303003584 by jim mcnamara on Saturday 16th of September 2017 12:57:28 PM
Old 09-16-2017
You have to run the script as sysftp or whatever users have ssh-keys set correctly. Your script assumes one username it looks like to me.

Log on to the sysftp account and try the script. ( If your system has sudo you allow users by granting sudo access to run your script as sysftp. Nothing else, just that script. This usually is done on a group basis, but can be done for each user that needs the access. If this is the case, setup sudoers, then try using sudo to run the script instead of just logging on as sysftp)

In any case if you actually are a user with ssh-keys running the script:
If it asks for the password, you have not set up things correctly.

Common sources of error:
Check permissions on the local .ssh directory that should be in sysftp's login directory tree. Check permissions on the home directory of sysftp.

Here is a how to on setting up sftp (which means use the ssh protocol to login):
How To Setup SSH Keys on a Linux / Unix System – nixCraft
Last edited by jim mcnamara; 09-16-2017 at 02:03 PM..
 

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curlinfo_ftp_entry_path

CURLINFO_FTP_ENTRY_PATH(3)				     curl_easy_getinfo options					CURLINFO_FTP_ENTRY_PATH(3)

NAME

       CURLINFO_FTP_ENTRY_PATH - get entry path in FTP server

SYNOPSIS

       #include <curl/curl.h>

       CURLcode curl_easy_getinfo(CURL *handle, CURLINFO_FTP_ENTRY_PATH, char **path);

DESCRIPTION

       Pass  a	pointer  to  a	char pointer to receive a pointer to a string holding the path of the entry path. That is the initial path libcurl
       ended up in when logging on to the remote FTP server. This stores a NULL as pointer if something is wrong.

       The path pointer will be NULL or pointing to private memory you MUST NOT free - it gets freed when you  call  curl_easy_cleanup(3)  on  the
       corresponding CURL handle.

PROTOCOLS

       FTP(S) and SFTP

EXAMPLE

       TODO

AVAILABILITY

       Added in 7.15.4. Works for SFTP since 7.21.4

RETURN VALUE

       Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not.

SEE ALSO

       curl_easy_getinfo(3), curl_easy_setopt(3),

libcurl 7.54.0							 February 03, 2016					CURLINFO_FTP_ENTRY_PATH(3)
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