Support for here documents with sftp client in OpenSSH 2.5.1p1-1(RH Linux 6.2 [2.2.x kernel])

[Christophe Moret]

I think the real issue is when talking with NT SSH servers, for which
I do not know of an implementation that uses only PubKey. A password
is always necessary, and we have no choice to put in scripts...

This is bad of course, but is there another solution for NT ? (typically
Van Dyke servers for example).

BTW I have a patch available for adding -W <password> option in ssh
and Pass <password> in .ssh/config, if you need it.

-Christophe

Damien Miller wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Davis, Ricardo C. wrote:
>
> > A question on the cutting edge sftp client in OpenSSH 2.5.1p1-1:
> >
> > Is there a standard set of commands for sftp clients?  I was hoping to use
> > sftp as a drop in replacement for some simple FTP transfer scripts.  In
> > particular, the ftp client allows specifying the password in the "user"
> > command:
> >
> > user <account> <password>
>
> I don't think the sftp client will ever support this syntax - it would
> be difficult to implement and would encourage the use of plaintext
> passwords in scripts.
>
> > It doesn't appear that OpenSSH's sftp client can do this.  Is it
> > possible to specify the password as part of the command line?
>
> This is not going to happen either - commandlines are visible to all other
> users of your system using ps.
>
> > ...but it doesn't.  Am I looking for something that isn't available
> > in sftp client implementations?  If this is true, then what options
> > are there for automated, authenticated transfers?
>
> You can use public key authentication - this is exactly what it is
> designed for :)
>
> -d
>
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> | Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> \ ``E-mail attachments are the poor man's
> | http://www.mindrot.org          /   distributed filesystem'' - Dan Geer

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