Re: sftp Win client batch mode?

From: Dan Klinedinst (DKlinedinst@lbl.gov)
Date: 12/12/02

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    From: Dan Klinedinst <DKlinedinst@lbl.gov>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 10:48:36 -0800

    Putty seems quite good, except it doesn't support mget/mput or
    wildcards. Unless I'm missing something?

    Users will be put off by having to type "put file_x.xxx" a few dozen
    times (well, the smart ones will just script that, too, but that doesn't
    cover the whole user base :-) )

    Dan

    Brian wrote:

    >Try putty.
    >
    >I havent had much luck with fsecure.... but Putty works quite well. :)
    >
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    >"Dan Klinedinst" <DKlinedinst@lbl.gov> wrote in message
    >news:at80s3$ni8$1@overload.lbl.gov...
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    >
    >>Hi,
    >> I'm trying to use F-Secure ssh client on Win 2K to transfer files to a
    >>Solaris 8 server running OpenSSH 3.4p1. Interactive sftp from command
    >>line works fine, it prompts for my passphrase or password. But if I try
    >>to run it in batch mode (-B switch) and feed it a list of commands from
    >>a file, it just tells me "Disconnected; authentication cancelled by user."
    >>
    >>It never prompts me for the passphrase or password. The documentation
    >>claims to support putting your password in a file and reading it via the
    >>-W flag, but that doesn't appear to work either (although I don't know
    >>for sure what the file format would be.)
    >>
    >>I know I could get around this using Cygwin and OpenSSH but I'd rather
    >>not have to install that for every user, especially when F-Secure is the
    >>officially supported Windows SSH client for our organization.
    >>
    >>My batch file (batch.txt) contains:
    >>
    >>open user@server
    >>ascii
    >>get test.txt
    >>quit
    >>
    >>...and the command line I'm using is
    >>sftp2 -B batch.txt
    >>
    >>If anyone has ever gotten batch mode to work with F-Secure, any help
    >>would be much appreciated!
    >>
    >>TIA,
    >>Dan
    >>
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