[Techtalk] Securely transferring files using scripts

[Kathryn Hogg]

> I cant answer your question directly, but I do know that with ssh at
> least, you can set it up so that you can ssh into another box without
> needing to provide the password. You do this by copying the requisite
> keys onto the other machine (there is doco available on how to exactly
> do this). It then just uses the key pairs as the authentication method.
>
> I cant help but wondering if you might also be able to do this with scp
> as well? I'm fairly sure you can, but can say so with any certainty.

And if you absolutely have to provide a password, you can always use expect
to talk to whatever file transfer program you desire.

-- 
Kathryn