How to use scp with the password ?
 

Hi,

I am using scp command to copy one file to remote machine as follows

so it asking for the password,
my doubt is how to pass the password along with the command so i don't have to give password again.

I searched and find out about the keyfile set up but I do not need that idea .
I want to use the password.

So,kindly tell is it possible to use password if yes then how and if not then is there any other way to copy a file/directory in one command itself with out prompting for password.

kindly tell some suggestion ,it is needed for my work.
Thanks

passwords should always be entered manually. Your requirements fit *EXACTLY* with a preshared key. Why would you not want to do that?

Thanks for the reply,
I do not want the idea of key file because,in my project I may not always need to have that key file set in all the target machines adn also local machine for all the target file.

simply i have the password and a shell script to copy a file to all the machines.but it asking password so how to do this .


Thanks

In that case I would recommend to use expect. but keep in mind that hardcoding a password in a script is a very bad habit security wise.

I think you may do this via "expect".


#!/usr/bin/expect
spawn scp localfile root@192.168.1.13:/root/
expect "*password:*" {
send "mypassword\r"
}

This will automatically put password when password's prompt will be detected. Note in your case you have to connect your shell's script with this expect's script.

Can I just add further support to acid_kewpie & TobiSGD's advice: hard-coding a password is a really bad idea.

Hi
Keeping the password on shell script is very idea try to use ssh keygen instead of password.But Any way you can use these

sshpass -p 'password' scp user-name@scp-server-ip-address:path-of-the-file/file-name destination-location

Great sshpass is more better than expect

You should look to adjust your requirements so that they do fit in line with preshared keys. they exist for a reason, and anything else is a hack.