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As far as I'm concerned there is no way to do that by means of the sftp command. Apart security concerns which you may have taken into account, a method can be using expect, which talk to interactive applications. For example the script
talk to sftp by sending the password in the colored field. Please note first line of this script and the newline character after the password. Expect is not installed by default on all linux distros. Another method could be by means of Perl or Python, which can interact with sftp passing arguments like password and commands.
As far as I'm concerned there is no way to do that by means of the sftp command. Apart security concerns which you may have taken into account, a method can be using expect, which talk to interactive applications. For example the script
talk to sftp by sending the password in the colored field. Please note first line of this script and the newline character after the password. Expect is not installed by default on all linux distros. Another method could be by means of Perl or Python, which can interact with sftp passing arguments like password and commands.
if the password is in clear text then wouldn't this be pretty insecure
if the password is in clear text then wouldn't this be pretty insecure
I know. If you re-read my post you can see I assume the OP has done his evaluation about security concerns. As for me, I would use public key authentication.
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Originally Posted by ryanlum
if i do not have expect in /usr/bin.. where do i go to get it?
Depending on the distribution you are running on, you should be able to find a package called expect. The official page is here.
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