topic Re: provide password during scp command. in Operating System - HP-UX

provide password during scp command.

Alok_Behria — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:26:32 GMT

Hi All,

I am sitting on HP UX 11.11 and I need to perform the scp to different host. in porder to achieve this, I have created ths sh file , but it's getting for password problem.

nohup sh scp.sh

below commands inside the scp.sh file

scp -p file_name target@osuser:/db/qa05/export/

Re: provide password during scp command.

Dennis Handly — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:20:46 GMT

Have you set up the keys for ssh? And do the files and directories have the right permissions?

Re: provide password during scp command.

Alok_Behria — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:17:44 GMT

we have everything set up , it's only , when i run the sh file in background, it got failed becuase of the passowrd for oraqa05 on oradev3 host. now, i need something like, where i can script the password , so that i can run this in background , without any intraction. i hope, i am clear.

prod02> nohup sh scp.sh &

[5] + Stopped (tty output)     nohup sh scp.sh &

scp -p edemo_eshare_28feb.dump.gz edemo_eshare_28feb.log oraqa05@oradev3:/db/qa05/export/
oraqa05@oradev3's password:
edemo_eshare_28feb.d 24% |***********

Re: provide password during scp command.

Steven Schweda — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:52:25 GMT

Re: provide password during scp command.

Dennis Handly — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:21:46 GMT

>we have everything set up

What do you have set up?

You can use ssh and:

1) Still have passwords

2) Have a passphrase instead

3) Have password/passphraseless logins.

4) Host-based with ~/.rhosts or ~/.shosts

For 2) you can also cache the passphrase in a ssh-agent, added with ssh-add.

Which do you want to do?

Re: provide password during scp command.

BalachandraST — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:24:03 GMT

This problem could be overcome by configuring authentication with public keys instead of using passwords.

Follow the steps in "HP-UX Secure Shell Getting Started Guide" to configure public key authentication. The guide is available at the following link:

http://bizsupport2.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c03243765/c03243765.pdf