> I'm in a situation where I need to copy files from one host to another
> via a cron job. Automated FTP is out, due to the need for the
> communication to be encrypted. Is it possible to automate scp or sftp
> to do this? The only problem I can see so far is having to spec the
> password somehow, and I'd rather not have a password or passphrase
> stored in a file..
checkout rsync (http://rsync.samba.org), it has an option to do the
filetransfer encrypted.
Regards,
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