sftp connection in scripts without prompting for password

[Mohan Ganesan]

Hi,
My objective is, through a script In need to connect to sftp server and get some file in to my local without prompting password. How can I write a scripts to connect to sftp without asking/prompting for password (ie) i can provide password in scripts itself? Please let me know your suggestions.

Thanks.
Mohan.

[Pat Farrell]

use ssh to setup a .ssh directory for you. Put the public keys on both servers and you are done. Check out the man pages for ssh