How can I use scp without providing a password

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Published on 2010-02-26T01:34:17Z Indexed on 2012/06/13 4:42 UTC
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I have asked a question before in here. My question was that I tried to give my password to scp via piping

echo mypassword | scp [email protected]:project/* ~/project/  

However it still asks me to manually input the password. How should I specify mypassword to scp in commands?

I still don't understand one of the replies. what is a input stream by TTY, for example? What are the common ways for a input stream? How to know what type of input stream a stdin input to a command is? For example that of ssh/scp.

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