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This question already has answers here : Closed 4 years ago . How to run the sftp command with a password from Bash script? (9 answers) I am trying to write a script to back up a file over SFTP. The problem is, it requires a password, and I see no way to manually specify a password to SFTP. I've heard about requiring no password by using public keys, but that requires being able to ssh into the remote server and modify some configuration files, which I cannot do. Currently my solution is to use cURL , but that is insecure (uses normal FTP). I also looked at the .netrc file, but that seems to

I am using GitHub. I created a repository and cloned it on my Ubuntu machine. I have made an entry in the .netrc file as follows: machine https://github.com/xxx/yyy.git login xxx xxx I am expecting that Git will not ask me for the username and password after this entry in the .netrc file. But Git prompts for credentials even after this. Am I missing something? VonC The ~/.netrc (or %HOME%\_netrc on Windows) file isn't enough. You would need to copy the git-credential-netrc file anywhere in your $PATH / %PATH% , add: cd yourRepo git config credential.helper "netrc -d -v" (You can remove -d and

I've been looking at Git and cURL and I found some references about .netrc, that may help on HTTP authentication. The problem is: .netrc is dumb, because it stores passwords in plain text format, which is a big security issue for the solution I'm developing. Is there an alternative to the .netrc approach? Is it possible to develop an "authentication backend" to cURL? VonC Update April 2013, git 1.8.3 : A new read-only credential helper (in contrib/ ) to interact with the .netrc/.authinfo files has been added. That script would allow you to use gpg-encrypted netrc files , avoiding the issue of