Re: Need help with SCP and do Shell script
Re: Need help with SCP and do Shell script
- Subject: Re: Need help with SCP and do Shell script
- From: Axel Luttgens <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 23:47:00 +0100
On 25/01/08 22:18, Bernardo Höhl wrote:
Hi list,
I have to copy a few folders from my Mac to many new macs. One
machine at a time.
Hello Bernardo,
If you have the opportunity to send folders(files) to remote machines,
one could suppose you have some agreements with the owner(s) of those
machines.
Could you elaborate, shouldn't it involve too private matters of course?
One solution I found was to use a "do script with command" that
forces terminal to open a new window for each command, also makes me
manually type "yes" for acceptance of adding the new machine to
"knowhosts" file, followed by typing the remote's user password.
Puting an ssh key in the remote machine is not possible.
Hence my above question. ;-)
If the manager of the remote machines is not willing to agree with some
kind of transfer protocol, I would tend to say you're somehow stuck...
I pass the ip address to the scp string also manually in a displayed
dialog.
I wish I could enhance my script by passing the remote's password in
a do shell script command, without opening the terminal window, also
overiding the prompt for acceptance of the new machine into "knownhosts".
This could perhaps be achieved through a shell way, for example with the
expect(1) command; but this often proves unreliable, because handling
real conditions (when the slightest thing may go wrong) is often very
difficult.
There are also some tricks through some other means (for example php),
but they also heavily rely on the medium to be reliable and the other
side to be cooperative.
I would be very happy to read your comments, and new approaches are
very welcome.
As others already said, having an agreement with the manager of the
remote machines allowing you to use a public key system would be the
easiest way. But again, this of course depends on the context you are
facing.
HTH (somehow),
Axel
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