SSH & SFTP accessing VMS Servers 2

[ianholmes]

I need to replace telnet and ftp with ssh & sftp when accessing VMS Servers (from AIX environment)
I know that telnet <hostname> is replaced by
ssh <userid>@<hostname> from the AIX prompt.
But I have my ftp commands within scripts.
ie
vaxhost = x.y.z
for file in $X
do
print "put $file ${file%.dat}"
done >> /tmp/tempfile

ftp $vaxhost < /tmp/tempfile etc etc

I thought I would replace this with
sftp <userid>@vaxhost < /tmp/tempfile
but this appears not to work because it is expecting a password for <userid>, which is no good for running scripts.
How to I bye-pass the entry of the password ?
Thanks

 

[ericbrunson]

Read the section of the ssh manual page on "authorized_keys" and then read the manual page for "ssh-keygen" to find out how to generate keypairs.

 

[dchoulette]

Yes, and after reading man for ssh and ssh-keygen, you could also read man for ssh-agent and ssh-add.

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Denis