Re: GNU Parallel Bug Reports Unable to transfer multiple files when password-less SSH is not setup

[Ole Tange]

Yes. GNU Parallel is made for situations where you do not have to
enter your password. Look at ssh-agent and be inspired by
https://wiki.dna.ku.dk/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=ssh_config

/Ole

On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Zhi Shen <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are unable to transfer multiple files to a remote server when
> password-less SSH is not setup.  We also notice that we make multiple trips
> to the remote server whenever we use "--bf" to transfer a file to the remote
> server.  From this, we had to input multiple passwords.
>
> local$ ./parallel -V
> GNU parallel 20130722
>
> local$ uname -a
> Linux local 2.6.18-308.8.1.el5 #1 SMP Fri May 4 16:43:02 EDT 2012 x86_64
> x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> remote$ uname -a
> Linux remote 2.6.18-308.el5 #1 SMP Fri Jan 27 17:17:51 EST 2012 x86_64
> x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> local$ touch file1 file2
> local$ ./parallel --nonall -k --bf file1 --bf file2 -S remote "ls -trlh"
> remote's password: remote's password:
> stty: standard input: Invalid argument
>
>
> local$ rsync error: received SIGINT, SIGTERM, or SIGHUP (code 20) at
> rsync.c(542) [sender=3.0.6]
>
> The above command did not come back and we press "CTRL+C" to exit.
>
> Thanks,
> zhi
>
> --
> Zhi Shen
>
>