sftp keyboard-interactrive bypass?

[Joe Klemmer]

William Murray wrote:

>              I am trying to make a cron job copy files using sftp. 
> Unfortunately the server only accepts password,keyboard-interactive
> modes. So I would really like to redirect standard in.
>    However, if I make a script like this:
>    sftp  hhh at yyy <input.txt
> it still requests the pasword from the keyboard. Is there any way to
> get round this? I really cannot change the settings on the server.

	You should look at expect.  It's tailor made for this exact purpose.

Joe