sftp batch mode and interactive passwords

[Dan Ritter]

On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 08:47:11PM +0000, robertlaferla at comcast.net wrote:
> % sftp -b mybatchfile myuser at myhost
> 
> but instead of prompting me for a password, it gives me a:
> 
> debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive

>From the man page:

  The final usage format allows for automated sessions using the
  -b option.
  In such cases, it is necessary to configure non-interactive
  authentication to obviate the need to enter a password at
  connection time (see sshd(8) and ssh-keygen(1) for details). 

In other word, You Can't Do That, That Way.

Does it have to be SFTP? Can you do SCP instead?

Otherwise, you should use expect to script the whole thing, not
batch mode.

-dsr-

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