Providing password to scp

Andre Kolodochka <[email protected]>
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Hi,

I need to set up a cron job where I grub a file from remote server and place it into a directory on local server. Remote server have plain username/password authentication configured.

SCP would do the job, but the problem is I have no idea how to provide a password to scp as a parameter (versus entering it in interactive mode).

Any ideas apart from setting up no password certificate authentication?

Regards,
Andre

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