[plug] Using SCP without entering a password interactively

[Russell Steicke]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 01:10:13PM +0800, Mike Hasleby wrote:

> Is there any way of passing a password to scp on the command line or in
> a config file, etc.?

Read ssh(1), particularly the section on public-key cryptography and the
$HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys file.  You don't need to save passwords
anywhere for this to work.

> Jason Belcher


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