Re: PGP scripting...

From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: 01/08/03

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    To: stuart@cyberdelix.net
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 23:12:18 -0500

    On Wed, 08 Jan 2003 00:38:42 GMT, lsi said:
    > I have spent many hours attempting to figure out how to get my webserver logf
    ile downloaded (or, website
    > updates uploaded) via FTP automatically, without having to leave my password
    floating around on my
    > machine somewhere.

    I've seen this done with SSH (the 'scp' component). You tell it to use
    public-key authentication rather than password, generate a special key
    that doesn't have a passphrase associated with it, and then use that key
    to connect to the target system as a user that's restricted to only being
    able to upload files. If you're really paranoid, use a 'nobody' type userid
    to upload into a temp dir, and then have a cron job on the dest system copy
    them to the "real" destination....