FTP Scripting Question

[Youlette Etienne_2]

Hello,

I am building an ftp server using wu-ftp on an e25 11.0 server. I want to write scripts that will automatically ftp files from this server to specific IP addresses outside our firewall. From what I know, to do this, I will have to add the username and password in the scripts, to allow them to log into other servers and transfer the files. I did a search on the Forum and saw the same standard for other ftp scripts. It seems that my only option is to make the scripts rwx by root only. Is there any other option to writing such a script?

[federico_3]

you should use $HOME/.netrc file that contains login and initialization information used by the ftp autologin process. Its permissions have to be 400.

Check man .netrc

I hope this helps


Federico

[Dave Chamberlin]

There is a program called Expect that allows you to make an automated call to programs that normally expect interaction, like ftp. You can make a program as root, set the mode on that program to 4755 ( to allow root ID on execution) and anyone can run it. I believe that Expect is still free to download try
http://expect.nist.gov for some info.

[John Palmer]

Have a look at this previous discussion on how to hide passwords for use in a shell script.

http://my1.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0x6ba20559ff7cd4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

Please see your post and other suggestions in the system administration catetory too.

...JRF...

[Sándor Szabó]

Hi,

you should try
ftp -nv < ftpcontrol
command. The "ftpcontrol" file contains all commands that used by the ftp. The control file permissions have to be 400. I send the sample ftpcontrol file, what i use to automatically upload custom pacth information to the HP support site.