Re: Windows SCP using key files

["Paul J. Brickett" <swarzkopf () legolas sinnerz us>]

After establishing the RSA keys once, you should be fine from that point 
forward, correct? Try using a GUI based client like WinSCP to perform one 
sucessful SCP transfer. The app should take care of key exchange for you. 
I'm thinking that you should then be able to use your automated script 
with the keys already exchanged.

On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Josh Haft wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I've come across a situation where I need to download files via SSH
> from a *nix machine to a Windows server. We are running the Windows
> server and will be accessing the customers' nix server, hopefully
> using a public/private key. We will have the private key here on our
> Win machine and will transfer the public key to them. I am able to
> generate to the pub/priv key using puttygen, but I am unsure as to the
> next steps. I'm aware of cygwin, but that seems overkill for one
> command. I also don't know how I would set that up. This will be an
> automated procedure, as we have to grab files every night, perhaps
> more frequently.
>
> I've done pub/priv key auth between two Linux machines, and have even
> automated it. I'd like to grab the files via a Linux machine, but the
> files will have some post-download functions performed, and that part
> can only run on Windows.
>
> Any suggestions or comments you can provide would be helpful. I'm sure
> someone has encountered and successfully solved this before, but 'the
> google' hasn't helped much.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Josh