Hello,
I would like to transfer the folders from the local m/c to the remote SFTP server. I have written a perl script which is going to transfer the files but the issue that I am facing is, for each & every file SFTP connection is requesting to enter the password. I just wanted to automate the process & no human intervention should be there. I have gone through various FAQ & after lot of googling I fed up. Everyone is asking to generate the keys & place the file in the remote m/c but no one is explaining with the exact steps to acheive this.
I hope & wish that this team will help me in resolving the issue.
Thanks,
Rajani Kanth
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Hi Sage,
Your quick response has been appreciated.
I have already run those commands but the file that mentioned was not created in my $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa/ folder. It has shown a success message saying that a file has been created but infact the was not present.
$HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys
Thanks,
Rajani Kanth
Hi Tintin,
Final questions regarding this issue. Thanks in advance for your answers.
Do I need to have root permission for appending the file contents to the "authorized_keys" file?
How far this approach is secure?
Does this allow all users from that local system should be able to access the remote without password? How about from the other networks & other systems.
THanks,
Rajani Kanth
You need whatever privs you need to add/edit the authorized_keys file. Presumably this is owned by the user on the remote side.
Setting up the keys allows the user on the local server (the user who generated the keys) to login to the user on the remote server without a password. No other user can login without a password (unless their keys have also been setup).
You can further restrict access by the sshd server configuration, firewall rules and/or ssh configuration.
a_rajanikanth, what OS do you have?
Check this solution, that might be helpful:
http://www.experts-exchang
If you don't have TCL or expect, you may use a pure Perl with Expect package:
http://search.cpan.org/~rg
or with IPC::Session package (instead of expect): http://search.cpan.org/~st
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by: TintinPosted on 2007-06-12 at 17:34:01ID: 19271045
Here's the basic steps you need to do:
On the local server, do
ssh-keygen -t dsa
Press enter for all questions
copy $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa.pub to the remote user in
$HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys
make sure the .ssh directory has perms of 700