-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Brian D. McGrew wrote: >Good morning all: > >I want to use ssh in a script to do a night backup of some machines via >cron job. It looks something like: > >ssh -l root <server> 'dump 0cf - /filesystem' | gzip > filesystem.gz > >Anyone know how I can pass the root password into ssh on the command >line? > >-brian > >Brian D. McGrew { brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx || brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx } >-- > >>Those of you who think you know it all, > > really annoy those of us who do! > > Brian, DON'T DO IT THIS WAY. If you need to do a backup, try setting up the system's cron job to do the backup. Or if doing a remote backup to a remote drive, try the utilities that allow you to do remote backups and don't do this. James Kosin -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDX6oskNLDmnu1kSkRAxmsAJ90VAOUFCLsVWApSn1QJmNOmSuh+wCfStY3 Svf3NJccZMyXjzqt3Gt4k+o= =U3Xk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Scanned by ClamAV - http://www.clamav.net