How to respond to password prompt when using SCP in a shell script?
Use "sshpass"!
#!/bin/bashsshpass -p "password" scp -r /some/local/path user@example.com:/some/remote/path
Are ssh keys not allowed? That would be a better solution.
I don't think you can easily do that. What you can do is using public key authentication instead.
Something along these lines
ssh-keygen -t rsassh school mkdir .ssh/cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh school "cat >>.ssh/authorized_keys"(or dsa).
But hey, it's not serverfault, is it? ;-)