Good morning Rick,  


   It's SFTP. We have data transmissions that are FTP, SFTP with password and SFTP without password where we have the public key
on the target server. The problem is when running in the background("&") mode where the "password" prompts don't seems to be
presented to the running script where "except" to see, rather came back to the terminal session.


   my $expect = Expect->spawn("sftp -o 'batchMode no' -b $BATCH $user\@$host ");
   $expect->expect(30,"password:");
   $expect->send("$password\n");
   $expect->interact;
   $rc=$?;


Thanks and Regards,

    Eddie


  P.S.

    Did we had a great time at the VM workshop!              

-----Original Message-----
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.M...] On Behalf Of Richard Troth
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2012 9:34 AM
To: LINUX-390@VM.M...
Subject: Re: Running SecureFTP in background mode using perl "expect"

> I suspect you may be confusing "sftp" with "ftps".  "sftp" is in fact
> another ssh client, and also can do public/private key authentication
> just as ssh and scp.

[sigh]  Not the first time.

The good news then is that use of SSH keys is all that much easier for Eddie's scenario.

> "ftps" is another kettle of fish.

Right.  I don't use either one anymore ... for reasons beyond this thread.

> -- Pat

-- R;
Rick Troth
Velocity Software
http://www.velocitysoftware.com/

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