[Techtalk] Securely transferring files using scripts

[Jenn Vesperman]

On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 01:53, jennyw wrote:
> Is there a way to securely transfer files using a script?  I'd like to 
> write a backup script on my mail server to tar the messages and then send 
> them to a backup server.  I'd like to use scp or something but don't want 
> to pass a password. 

Have you considered storing ssh keys for a daemon-user to use when doing
this script?


Jenn V.
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