Re: scp problems

In article <1160515.961813259512.JavaMail.imail@scorch.excite.com>, jeremyf10@excite.com wrote: > I'm trying to call scp from php to move files from my server to a user > specified one. Using the follow exec fails because you can't specify the > password via an option. > > $scp_path = "/usr/local/bin/scp -1 -q". > $filename.$username."@".$host:$filename"; > (that's actually one line) > > exec($scp_path,$errors); You may be able to do like this: $scp_path = "echo $password\\\\n /usr/local/bin/scp -1 -q $filename.$username@$host:$filename"; I'm not sure how many \s you need, but PHP uses them as escape, and so does shell, so keep adding/deleting until it works. -- Richard Lynch | If this was worth $$$ to you, buy a CD US Customer Support Director | from one of the artists listed here: Zend Technologies USA | http://www.L-I-E.com/artists.htm http://www.zend.com | (this has nothing to do with Zend, duh!)