[RESOLVED] Sending a password to a program on the Command prompt

jkurrle

I need to do a quick and dirty PHP script to interact on a command prompt with SFTP. I can create a batchfile of sftp commands to run, but because I cannot send a public key to the target server, I have to use a password to log on. What is the best way of sending a password to sftp?

TIA, any help is greatly appreciated.

NogDog

[man]ftp_ssl_connect/man followed by [man]ftp_login/man?

jkurrle

I'll look at it, but I don't know how successful I will be to recompile PHP for window with SSL enabled. I was hoping to be able to interact on the command line with the sftp program and simply feed it a password, similar to what the Expect scripting language does...

NogDog

Not sure if there's any difference with SFTP, but with FTP you can do:

ftp [b]-n[/b] [I]hostname.com[/I]
user [I]user-name password[/I]

The -n disables the automatic prompt for user/password so you can enter it via the user command.

jkurrle

I found a command line sftp client called sftpc from BitVise which was packaged in the Tunnelier software package. It allows me to feed in the password and run a command script, once it's logged in.

So, I created sftpc's script to change directories and upload files, then called it with shell_exec(). After that, I used PHP's various file functions to move and clean up local files afterwards.

This way, I don't need to manually recompile PHP with SSH for Windows, nor worry about interacting with the program. It's a single simple command line, short and sweet. 😃