Automatic SFTP login on Windows client

Question

Is there a solution that allows automatic SFTP user/password login?

I thought that was possible just by putting a .netrc file in $HOME but unfortunately it's not working on SFTP.

Has anyone else faced this problem?

joschi · Answer 1 · 2010-07-20T06:09:53.837

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SFTP is based on SSH, so you can use the standard SSH key files. See ssh-keygen(1) and ssh_config(5).

If you're dependent on password authentication you could use another SFTP client like lftp or curl to which you can provide the password through a command line parameter or configuration file.

edited Jul 20 '10 at 06:09

answered Jul 19 '10 at 14:16

joschi

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in this case i have to use user/password instead of key authentication – achraf Jul 19 '10 at 15:13
You could use lftp or curl, see edit. But IMHO the correct solution[tm] would be using SSH keys. – joschi Jul 20 '10 at 06:10

Automatic SFTP login on Windows client

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