copying files securely between 2 hosts

[gallows]

I need to come up with a way to copy files from one Solaris9 box to another via a cronjob. I wanted to use SCP and thought if I configured SSH with the "authorized_keys" I would be ok. But, from what I have read, it still requires a password. Since this will be running as a cronjob, I can't have a passwd. Anyone have any ideas on how I can do this?

Tks,
Gallows

 

[segment]

Use rsync and ssh-keys...
Use ssh-keygen -t rsa to generate a key, place it on the machine you want to rsync to, etc.

On machine1
rsync -aurpovW --ignore-existing --delete root@machine2:/directorytoBackup /

On machine2
rsync -aurpovW --ignore-existing --delete root@machine1:/directorytoBackup /


perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(40*2),sqrt(7600),(unpack(c,Q)-3+1+3+3-7),oct(104),10,oct(101));'

 

[Annihilannic]

You don't need rsync and you don't need a password with keys. Just specify a blank "passphrase" when generating the key pair.

Annihilannic.

 

[coffeysm]

What user are you trying to scp as? If you are using the root user, you will have to enable it in the config file settings.

 

[gallows]

Thanks Segment!! I appreciate the info. What does that perl line do?

Annihilannic - So I indeed can use SCP without a password. That is good to know. I'll Google keygen - never used it before)

coffeysm - No, it can't be root. I will have to make up a new user.

Thanks again for all of your responses. I appreciate them.

Gallows

 

[coffeysm]

You will have to run ssh-keygen and specify no "Challege Password". You will then have to copy that id_xxx.pub to authorized_keys in the user's home directory. You might also have to check sshd_config to see if public keys are a valid way of authentication.