Linux

How do I get PHP to use SCP?

I have tried using expect in a shell script and then passing it hostname, username and password.

The shell script works if it's run it from the command line (logged in as apache) but if I run it from a PHP script it doesn't work and I can't figure out why.

The web front end needs to:
- collect hostname, username, password
- log into remote machine
- transfer tar file from host machine to local machine
- expand tar file on local machine

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated...

Thanks,
~Donavon

I would suggest you use public keys instead of passwords for something like this. Then the user would not need to enter any username/password. Of course you front-end should be authenticated via some other means(ldap,file, etc..)

be very careful with your input parameters

check out PHP: Program Execution - Manual

Public keys can't be used in this situation.

my guess is that your script might be breaking because there is no terminal while running under apache and expect will not be able to read stdin.

this is just an example

Code:

<?php
$conn = ssh2_connect('ftp.server.com', 22);
ssh2_auth_password($conn 'user', 'pass');
ssh2_scp_send($conn, '/local/filename', '/remote/filename', 0644);
?>

sweet. I did not realize PHP had an API for ssh. learn something new every day.

It can be downloaded from PECL here