How to pass password to scp?

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

curl can be used as a alternative to scp to copy a file and it supports a password on the commandline.

curl --insecure --user username:password -T /path/to/sourcefile sftp://desthost/path/

Here is an example of how you do it with expect tool:

sub copyover {
    $scp = Expect->spawn("/usr/bin/scp ${srcpath}/$file $who:${destpath}/$file");
    $scp->expect(30,"ssword: ") || die "Never got password prompt from $dest:$!\n";
    print $scp 'password' . "\n";
    $scp->expect(30,"-re",'$\s') || die "Never got prompt from parent system:$!\n";
    $scp->soft_close();
    return;
}

Once you set up ssh-keygen as explained above, you can do

scp -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa /local/path/to/file remote@ip.com:/path/in/remote/server/

If you want to lessen typing each time, you can modify your .bash_profile file and put

alias remote_scp='scp -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa /local/path/to/file remote@ip.com:/path/in/remote/server/

Then from your terminal do source ~/.bash_profile. Afterwards if you type remote_scp in your terminal it should run the scp command without password.

Here's a poor man's Linux/Python/Expect-like example based on this blog post: Upgrading simple shells to fully interactive TTYs. I needed this for old machines where I can't install Expect or add modules to Python.

Code:

(
    echo 'scp jmudd@mysite.com:./install.sh .'
    sleep 5
    echo 'scp-passwd'
    sleep 5
    echo 'exit'
) |

python -c 'import pty; pty.spawn("/usr/bin/bash")'

Output:

scp jmudd@mysite.com:install.sh .
bash-4.2$ scp jmudd@mysite.com:install.sh .
Password: 
install.sh                                 100%   15KB 236.2KB/s   00:00    
bash-4.2$ exit
exit

1. Make sure password authentication is enabled on the target server. If it runs Ubuntu, then open /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the server, find lines PasswordAuthentication=no and comment all them out (put # at the start of the line), save the file and run sudo systemctl restart ssh to apply the configuration. If there is no such line then you're done.
2. Add -o PreferredAuthentications="password" to your scp command, e.g.:

   scp -o PreferredAuthentications="password" /path/to/file user@server:/destination/directory
   

copy files from one server to other server ( on scripts)

Install putty on ubuntu or other Linux machines. putty comes with pscp. we can copy files with pscp.

apt-get update
apt-get install putty 
echo n |  pscp -pw "Password@1234" -r user_name@source_server_IP:/copy_file_path/files /path_to_copy/files

For more options see pscp help.

In case if you observe a strict host key check error then use -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null options.

The complete example is as follows sshpass -p "password" scp -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null root@domain-name.com:/tmp/from/psoutput /tmp/to/psoutput

You can use below steps. This works for me!

Step1- create a normal file suppose "fileWithScpPassword" which contains the ssh password for the destination server.

Step2- use sshpaas -f followed by password file name and then normal scp command.

sshpass -f "fileWithScpPassword" scp /filePathToUpload user@ip:/destinationPath/

One easy way I do this:

Use the same scp cmd as you use with ssh keys i.e

scp -C -i <path_to opens sshkey> <'local file_path'> user@<ip_address_VM>: <'remote file_path’>

for transferring file from local to remote

but instead of providing the correct <path_to_opensshkey>, use some garbage path. Due to wrong key path you will be asked for password instead and you can simply pass the password now to get the work done!

An alternative would be add the public half of the user's key to the authorized-keys file on the target system. On the system you are initiating the transfer from, you can run an ssh-agent daemon and add the private half of the key to the agent. The batch job can then be configured to use the agent to get the private key, rather than prompting for the key's password.

This should be do-able on either a UNIX/Linux system or on Windows platform using pageant and pscp.

All the solutions mentioned above can work only if you the app installed or you should have the admin rights to install except or sshpass.

I found this very useful link to simply start the scp in Background.

$ nohup scp file_to_copy user@server:/path/to/copy/the/file > nohup.out 2>&1

https://charmyin.github.io/scp/2014/10/07/run-scp-in-background/