I have access to Solaris box over ssh and can login with username and password. I want to write a script which would copy files from that box unattended (scp/sftp from cron). Usually in such case I set up certificate authentication w/o password, but the problem is that my account on that box doesn't have home directory. I don't have a root access and can't change sshd config. Is there any way I can set up certificate authentication in such case? In other words, is there a way to let sshd to use public from location other than ~/.ssh/authrorized_keys?
Alternatively, if the above is not possible, is there other way to set up scp/sftp to run without user input with password based authentication?
