how to automate scp transfers?

[Xn Nooby]

I am now using expect, thanks!



On 5/21/07, jmurray at whoi.edu <jmurray at whoi.edu> wrote:
>
> Quoting Xn Nooby <xnooby at gmail.com>:
>
> > I need to automate some scp file transfers between a PXE-booted client
> and
> > it's Server.  Apparently, I cannot automatically supply the Server
> account's
> > password as an argument.  Since the PXE-based machine is coming from a
> > generated image, I do not reaaly have access to it in order to run
> > ssh-keygen.  I don't know a lot about SSH or private/public keys, that
> why I
> > was hoping to supply the password as a command-line argument to
> scp.  This
> > is in a fairly secure environment, but we are trying to use scp instead
> of
> > something that needs another server (like ftp).  Any suggestions on how
> to
> > automate scp file-transfers?
> >
>
>
> Can you generate the image with the key keys in it already? Or maybe you
> can use
> tcl/expect and send a passwd.
>
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