Need help in doing SFTP via command line

punitpawar has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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Re: Need help in doing SFTP via command line by NetWallah (Canon) on Oct 12, 2016 at 23:47 UTC
This is somewhat off-topic for perl, but you could look at "ssh-keygen" to generate a key pair, to allow for automated authentication keys. This should prevent sftp from asking for a password. ...it is unhealthy to remain near things that are in the process of blowing up. man page for WARP, by Larry Wall	[reply]
Re: Need help in doing SFTP via command line by salva (Canon) on Oct 13, 2016 at 07:15 UTC
I am not able to install Net::SFTP module... Use Net::SFTP::Foreign instead!	[reply]
Re: Need help in doing SFTP via command line by FreeBeerReekingMonk (Deacon) on Oct 13, 2016 at 07:59 UTC
You can also try expect, for which a perl module also exist. But as another monk said earlier, look up these: ssh-keygen (generate a public and private key in .ssh_ DONT USE A PASSWORD when asked, just press enter) ssh-copy-id (copy your public key to the other machine)	[reply]
Re: Need help in doing SFTP via command line by punitpawar (Sexton) on Oct 13, 2016 at 21:27 UTC
Thanks for the suggestions However the nature of my application is such that I have to connect to the SFTP server each time , with newly generated credentials to upload some files So I do require a way in which , I should be able to log on to the SFTP server with the new set of credentials, drop my files , and then close the connection Currently via command line when I do something like `sftp $userName\@$url ` , it actually prompts the user to put the password , which has been generated on the screen I wanted to get control over the user Interaction , by trying to add the password via my perl program itself In perl , is there any way to prevent the interactive user mode and to force the user entries via the program itself ? Thanks Once Again	[reply]
Re^2: Need help in doing SFTP via command line by Corion (Patriarch) on Oct 14, 2016 at 06:28 UTC
Have you looked at Net::SFTP::Foreign? It allows you to pass in the password, at least on unixish systems.	[reply]
Re^3: Need help in doing SFTP via command line by punitpawar (Sexton) on Oct 17, 2016 at 16:58 UTC
Hello, Thanks for the suggestion. Yes I was able to instal Net::SFTP::Foreign and I was able to successfully connect to the server. The place where I am stuck is when I try to do a 'Put'. I get the following message `put failed: the authenticity of the target host can't be established, +the remote host public key is probably not present on the '~/.ssh/kno +wn_hosts' file` [download] The reason being that there seems to be an offending key in the ssh/known_hosts file , which has to be overidden. I tried to do the same thing from the command line and I got the following result. From the command line , I can select the option "yes" for it to continue connecting to the server , but I do not know if I can do the same thing from the STP::Foreign module Here is my command line output `sftp 2000550000506913@sftp.XXX.com@upload-itms6.XXX.com Warning: the ECDSA host key for 'upload-itms6.XXX.com' differs from th +e key for the IP address '152.125.77.44' Offending key for IP in /Users/punitpawar/.ssh/known_hosts:2 Matching host key in /Users/punitpawar/.ssh/known_hosts:7 Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes 2000550000506913@sftp.XXX.com@upload-itms6.XXX.com's password:` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Need help in doing SFTP via command line by hippo (Archbishop) on Oct 17, 2016 at 17:01 UTC
Re^5: Need help in doing SFTP via command line by punitpawar (Sexton) on Oct 17, 2016 at 20:59 UTC
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Re^4: Need help in doing SFTP via command line by Corion (Patriarch) on Oct 17, 2016 at 17:07 UTC
Re: Need help in doing SFTP via command line by Sathishkumar (Scribe) on Oct 18, 2016 at 12:55 UTC
I used to solve this kind of problem using sftp.exe . Thanks, Sathish	[reply]