I got advised to do sftp with an empty passphrase. I got that working. Was pretty straight forward. But is there a better way? With a non-empty passphrase? But how to deal with that passphrase?
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ssh-agent
- https://linuxhandbook.com/transfer-files-ssh/
- https://www.tecmint.com/ssh-passwordless-login-using-ssh-keygen-in-5-easy-steps/
- my buzzword web search: ssh file transfer best practice
I do my ordinary SSH handling with an SSH agent, and I feel quite confident with that. But I yet have to find out about best practice of SSH-based “file transfers in the background”.
“sftp with an empty passphrase” is what I use for now.
On the target side the account gets a chroot-ed environment through a directive in sshd_config. But the chroot-ed environment gets linked via “mount –bind” into a useful and not so much restricted environment.
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