How to pass password to scp?

just generate a ssh key like:

ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "[email protected]"

copy the content of ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub and lastly add it to the remote machines ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

make sure remote machine have the permissions 0700 for ~./ssh folder and 0600 for ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

If you are connecting to the server from Windows, the Putty version of scp ("pscp") lets you pass the password with the -pw parameter.

This is mentioned in the documentation here.

You can script it with a tool like expect (there are handy bindings too, like Pexpect for Python).

Use sshpass:

sshpass -p "password" scp -r [email protected]:/some/remote/path /some/local/path

or so the password does not show in the bash history

sshpass -f "/path/to/passwordfile" scp -r [email protected]:/some/remote/path /some/local/path

The above copies contents of path from the remote host to your local.

Install :

ubuntu/debian
- apt install sshpass
centos/fedora
- yum install sshpass
mac w/ macports
- port install sshpass
mac w/ brew
- brew install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kadwanev/bigboybrew/master/Library/Formula/sshpass.rb

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