scp password prompt

Posted by Roshan on Jun 01, 2017; 5:22am
URL: http://erman-arslan-s-oracle-forum.124.s1.nabble.com/scp-password-prompt-tp2747.html

Hi Erman,

I am trying to scp files and automate it in crontab. I am trying to disable passsword prompt.

I have used a script

Keyfile="$HOME/.ssh/id_rsa"
Remote_ssh_dir="~/.ssh"
Remote_ssh_file="$Remote_ssh_dir/authorized_keys"
 
[ -z "$1" ] \
  && { echo "Missing 'user@target_host' argument. Aborted."; exit 1; }
 
[ ! -f $Keyfile ] \
  && { mkdir -p $HOME/.ssh && ssh-keygen -t rsa -f $Keyfile -N ''; }
 
keycode=`cat ${Keyfile}.pub`
 
ssh -q $1 "mkdir -p $Remote_ssh_dir; chmod 700 $Remote_ssh_dir
echo "$keycode" >> $Remote_ssh_file; chmod 644 $Remote_ssh_file"

Still I am unable ssh/scp without password prompt.

Please advise.