automated sftp

[PVR]

Hi !

We use a ftp script as given below to automate some file transfer from a unix server to a windows server;

ftp -v -n <

[Steven E. Protter]

shalom,

Its almost exactly the same

sftp user@hostname >>EOF
password
cd
put file
bye

EOF


You might also try:

sftp -b batchfile user@host

Or set up password free public key exhange and simply use scp to do the job without a password.

http://www.hpux.ws/?p=10

SEP

[PVR]

Hi SEP

Thanks for the quick response.

But the script is not working. When I execute the script it is prompting me to enter the password. If I enter password, rest things are working fine.

Are you sure that it is working for you at your place ?

Thanks

[PVR]

Can anyone help me to enable ssh password free access from a HP-UX box to a windows XP server ?

[Steven Schweda]

> Can anyone help me [...]

Have you set up public-key pairs yet (as
already suggested)?

[Jon M Zellhoefer]

You can also try using an expect script to do the transfer. I had to set this up at another hospital I worked at. There is an expect recorder that you can use to create a baseline script and edit it as needed. You'll essentially end up manually walking through one sftp session completely, and then modifying the script to either read in a list of files to transfer or something of the sort. It's basically TCL/TK, so if you're familiar, the setup is quite easy.

[fsumair_1]

Hi, Use this it is tested.

ftp -i â n <user
mkdir /test
cd test
lcd /data2/ME/ME_DATA/
mput Date*.DAT
ENDFTP



Regards
Sam

[fsumair_1]

Sorry I thought you are asking about ftp..

As far I know I tried to do the sam from sftp from a script that is succesfully runnig on a linux machine but cannot done in HP-UX.

[OldSchool]

set up key pairs and it will work, you need to place the public key from the unix box in the authorized keys file on the windows machine

[Deepak Kr]

yes, solution here is to set a passwordfree sftp connection from unix box to wintel box.

steps:

1. Generate keypair at unix box using keygen
2. provide the public key pair to wintel guys
3. wintel guys will update key pair.
4. You will be initiating sftp connection request as following

sftp localuser "domainname\remoteuser"@wintelmachine_name

Refer to this doc...

http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~mbonati/WIRC/manual/DATARED/setting_up_no-password_ssh.html

same for sftp also..

[PVR]

Sorry for the late reply.

I created keypair. May I know the location of authorized_key file in windows servers ?

From windows to unix server, passwordless copy is working fine. But the reverse is not happening. I think the location of my authorized_key file is wrong.

Thanks

[Deepak Kr]

it should be in

path=...\sftp\username\.ssh directory

[Rasheed Tamton]

Hi,

If it is windows xp, then the best way is to install cygwin on it and do a passwordless sftp as you would do from any unix box to another one.

As far as I know, this is the only way to get the passwordless ssh/sftp to work on windows xp. Otherwise, it would always ask for the passwd.

Regards.

[Rasheed Tamton]

You can get Cygwin here:

http://cygwin.com/

rgds.