On 10/7/2013 7:51 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: > Any thoughts on how I should be going about this? use ssh keys rather than password authentication.... see: man ssh-keygen short version, on local system, run ssh-keygen to create a public and private key for the local account, and append the public key ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub on the local system to the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 file on the remote system. once you've done this, ssh/scp/sftp will connect without prompting for a password. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast