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Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:09:31 -0500
From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: How to force sftp to expect a password from the keyboard in the  batch mode
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Alexander M. Batishchev wrote:
> Hello!
> I'm using Cygwin latest under WinXP and trying to upload some files to
> sourceforge.net using sftp.
> In interactive, non-batch mode everything works fine:
> 
> $ sftp user AT frs DOT sourceforge DOT net
> Connecting to frs.sourceforge.net...
> user AT frs DOT sourceforge DOT net's password:
> sftp>
> 
> but in the batch mode it doesn't asks a password and doesn't logins:
> 
> $ cat batch
> cd uploads
> $ sftp -b batch user AT frs DOT sourceforge DOT net
> Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive).
> Connection closed
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> Is it possible to force sftp to expect a password from the keyboard in the
> batch mode? It's impossible to me to keep the password into the batch file,
> unfortunately.

Not knowing much about 'sftp' myself, I took a look at the man page.
Here's what it says:

     -b batchfile
              Batch mode reads a series of commands from an input batchfile
              instead of stdin.  Since it lacks user interaction it should be
              used in conjunction with non-interactive authentication.

This suggests to me that you want to set up sftp to work with public
key authentication.  You can look at the man page for 'sshd' and
'sshd_config' for more information on that and at 'ssh-user-config'
for some examples of how to create keys.

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