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Aditya Tiwari
Aditya Tiwari

Reputation: 21

SFTP prompting for password even though password is in script

I am trying to transfer a file from one server to a remote server using SFTP. Client is not ready for key setup so I have gone through other questions on this forum related to SFTP and tried all. But still its not working in my case.

My Script :-

#!/bin/sh
# sample automatic ftp script to dump a file
USER="username"
PASSWORD="password"
HOST="hostname"
sftp $USER@$HOST << EOF
$PASSOWRD
cd test_path
put test_file.txt
quit
EOF

Upvotes: 1

Views: 33950

Answers (3)

user2970285
user2970285

Reputation: 56

You can do this using expect. It's very easy and simple;

#!/usr/bin/expect 
spawn sftp <userid>@<server> 
expect "password:" 
send "<password>\n" 
expect "sftp>" 
send "cd <remot dirctory>\r" 
expect "sftp>" 
send "mput * \r" 
expect "sftp>" 
send "quit \r"

Upvotes: 2

cmdilip
cmdilip

Reputation: 99

Try the below steps,

lftp -u $user,$passwd sftp://$host << --EOF--
cd $directory
put $srcfile
quit
--EOF--

Upvotes: 1

Nickolay Olshevsky
Nickolay Olshevsky

Reputation: 14160

You have a misprint in your script - you are writing $PASSOWRD instead of $PASSWORD, so it substitutes empty string.

Upvotes: 9

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