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Old 10-16-2008
SFTP through shellscripts
Hi Everybody,
I am in urgent need of a solution.

I need to carry out SFTP activities through a shell script.
I have generated public and private keys as shown below:

Shell-Prompt$> ssh-keygen -t rsa

Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/home/sunone/.ssh/id_rsa): mary
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):Mary had a little lamb
Enter same passphrase again:Mary had a little lamb
Your identification has been saved in mary.
Your public key has been saved in mary.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
af:fd:56:cb:47:b1:3b:aa:e6:dc:70:1d:d8:44:a9:40 sunone@devpopx-ukus

Next, the generated public key (contents of mary.pub) are copied to host's ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file

Having done the above, SFTP activities work perfectly when down at the shell prompt.

But, I am not able to do the same thru a shell script.


However, if I generate the public and private keys without any passphrase (null passphrase, that is), the script works fine.
Can anybody suggest how to go about doing SFTP in a shellscript, when a passphrase has been specified for the generated keys.

Or is it not possible to implement this through shell-scripts??

Please Help!!
# 2  
Old 10-16-2008
If you do a search in these forums you should find much information that should help you. Have you tried using scp?
# 3  
Old 10-16-2008
jyoung,
I've tried searching the forums here. What I got is how to carry out SFTP with a "null" passphrase.

But I need to do it with a given passphrase.


I can't user scp. I have been told use sftp only
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