You could use ssh's public-key authentication for this...of course you would have to generate your keys without a passphrase, which ideally isn't the most secure way to do it, but it's probably more secure than putting the passwords in a cleartext script. -Erik Raymond Norton wrote: > I want to use scp to transfer a number of log files from different hosts to > my server on a daily basis . So far, the docs I have found only give > examples of usernames from the command line. I need to do the username and > password so I can schedule a script to run each night. Is there a way to do > this? > > > Raymond > ------------- > > Defeat is a matter of choice. > > --God > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list