Colleagues
I hope some of you can help me with the following problem.
Background: We are using VNMR on SUN hosts running Solaris9. For
more than 15 years we have had our users launch a Magical shell
script (tomac) to create a tar file. It also does ftp data transfer
in the background for archiving on remote Macintosh computers. The
users just type tomac on the VNMR command line and then enters a file
name. The process uses .netrc which contains the remote password.
So, the user does not know the password on the archiving host. Of
course ftp has huge security problems. So, I am trying to create a
similar process using sftp. I have tried to do this using SUN's
Solaris9 ssh-keygen, ssh-agent, ssh-add, etc. I have tried
"passwordless" sftp setups I have found on websites. This
description is improper. They don't require your normal password,
but they do require a new "passphrase" (ie a new password).
My question: Help?! Do any of you have some expertise you can
share to get sftp/ssh to work in such a fashion as I described above.
That is, sftp launched with a Magical shell script and have the
password/passphrase entered in the background.
I will post any solutions to this problem.
Regards.
Joseph Vaughn
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Dr. Joseph Vaughn
NMR Facility Associate Director
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4390
850-644-3334 Phone
850-644-8281 Fax
vaughn_at_chem.fsu.edu
Received on Fri Sep 16 2005 - 16:43:11 MST