How to transer/execute a script on remote unix server from Linux machine

Question

I am trying to deploy an executable and execute it on remote Unix machine(Linux/Solaris) from Linux without entering the password manually.

I tried scp and also SSH key-gen utility to interact with remote server but in either way i couldn't avoid providing the password manually. Since I need to run this command/utility from Java code, I should completely avoid prompting for the password at run time. I have gone through many topics in google but nothing has been materialized.

How can I do this?

Answer 1

You need to read about rhosts and rlogin.

http://vegdave.wordpress.com/2007/05/17/how-to-rloginrcprsh-to-a-machine-without-enter-a-password/

Answer 2

You should set up authentication using public/private keypair as you already mentioned you generated using ssh-keygen. Have it generated without a password on the private key if you need to use it in automated scripts. Now, just copy over the public key using ssh-copy-id name@host to set it up correctly on the remote side (authorize public key).

I suggest you to follow a tutorial like this one.

If ssh works, then scp works likewise.

After setting it up correctly, you should be able to do this without interaction:

scp myscript.sh name@remotehost:~/
ssh name@remotehost ~/myscript.sh

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To avoid having to enter a password or passphrase there are a couple of choices

• use an authentication agent to hold the password/passphrase for the private key
• don't use any pass-phrase to protect the private key

The first is appropriate for interactive use, the latter is less secure. You should probably set up a new user-id for this with minimal rights at the far end (e.g. chrooted)

Answer 3

Step 0. You must have ssh access to remote machine.

Step 1. Generate RSA private/public key pair with ssh-keygen on your Linux box and place it somewhere (/root/identities, for example). Provide no passphrase.

Step 2. ssh-copy-id -i /root/identities/your.key user@remotemachine.tld

Step 3. This is it. Now you may ssh -i /root/identities/your.key user@remotemachine your_command and no password would be prompted. Sure, you must have PubkeyAuthentication = yes in remote machine's sshd_config.