Eliminating password prompts from ssh & scp
Allan Metts
ametts2 at mindspring.com
Wed Dec 10 21:07:44 UTC 2003
Hi all,
I have a silly little problem that has cost me an inordinate amount of time.
I need to spawn a secure file transfer from within a C program. I'd like
to simply execute the appropriate scp statement and capture the return code
-- should be no problem.
Here's the silly part: I can't find a way to prevent scp from prompting me
for a password. I've messed with sshd_config, established RSA1 keys, and
done everything else I can think of. And there seems to be no way to
include the password on the scp command line. I really don't want to have
to set up chat or expect logic just to deal with the password prompt.
I've got to be overlooking something basic, but I'll be darned if I can
figure out what. Can someone set me straight? If not, does anyone know of
an easy-to-use C++ API wrapper for scp/sftp?
Thanks in advance,
Allan
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