I can get scp to send a file interactively where I get prompted for the server password.
If I try using sshpass in a bash script it fails. No error messages, it just doesn't show up.
Both machines are Linux Mint 19.2 running the Mate desktop.

This command works:

scp myfile.txt myuser@192.168.n.nnn:/home/myuser/Documents/mydir/

This command does not work

sshpass -p 'mypass' scp myfile.txt myuser@192.168.n.nnn:/home/myuser/Documents/mydir/

Both ssh and sshpass were downloaded from the repository. I installed openssh on both machines some time ago. I installed sshpass within the last few days on the sending machine only. Both machines are sitting on a home network

Any reason you can't use keypair authentication instead of having to code a password into a script?

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Have they taken this ability away from me. I did this a few years ago and it worked.
I do not need high security on my own private network. I just want a simple way to
move files between computers.

sshpass works for me from both command line and a bash script running debian as the client. Just for a frame of reference does sshpass work if just using ssh?

sshpass -p 'mypass' ssh myuser@192.168.n.nnn

FYI posting the complete private IP address in no ways reveals any public or private information.

I prefer to use keys instead of sshpass.

The file manager has a built in sftp client and can save passwords so its possible to do the same thing from the GUI too.

sshpass -p 'mypass' ssh myuser@192.168.n.nnn

Yes that works, but I don't know how that solves my problem.

What happens if you run scp with sshpass from the command line?

What happens if you run scp with sshpass from the command line?

That does work. Now why doesn't it run from a script?

I don't know. Can you post the actual script?

Post the script, and maybe we can help.

#!/bin/bash
set -x
shpass -p 'MyPass' scp /home/terry/Documents/fpc/Test/MyFile.txt terry@192.168.0.100:/home/terry/Documents/fpc/Test/

# I also tried
# Cmd="shpass -p 'MyPass' scp /home/terry/Documents/fpc/Test/MyFile.txt terry@192.168.0.100:/home/terry/Documents/fpc/Test/"
# echo `$Cmd`
#Which also did not work

#This is a very simple script, I was going to execute it from a Pascal Program.
#I had also tried using Pascal's TProcess

#ScpProcess := TProcess.create(Nil);
#ScpProcess.Executable := 'sshpass';
#ScpProcess.Parameters.Add('-p');
#ScpProcess.Parameters.Add('''MyPass''');
#ScpProcess.Parameters.Add('scp');
#ScpProcess.Parameters.Add('ScpExample.pas');
#ScpProcess.Parameters.Add('terry@192.168.0.100:/home/terry/Documents/fpc/Test/');
#ScpProcess.Options := ScpProcess.Options + [poWaitOnExit];
#ScpProcess.Execute;
#Again, no errors, but the file was not copied.
#So I am kind of running out of ideas.

I got the first shell script to work.

I copied the above line, modified shpass to sshpass, editited the password for my remote system, and edited the IP address to match my home network. I had to create a MyFile.txt as a test file. I also shortened the path to MyFile.txt on both ends. I gave the script a name of testcopy and made it executable. I ran the command sh testcopy, and got the following output.

Note, I x'ed out my password.

Hope this helps.

I don't know anything about Pascal, possibly someone else will chime in and help there.

I'm sorry, the documentation I saw said you had to have single quotes around the password.

Terry.

FWIW, I tried it with and without single quotes, worked both ways.

Same here, worked for me both ways.

Btw, the Pascal worked once I removed the quotes from the string.