2009/4/24 Manuel Aróstegui <manuel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 10:12 +0100, Dan Track wrote: >> Hi Guys, >> >> I've written a simple for loop see below: >> >> for i in orion earth;do scp /etc/hosts /etc;done >> >> I have a small scripting knowledge so would appreciate some help. What >> I'd like to do is somehow change the above so that the script prompts >> me for a password and when I give the script the password it will use >> it to auto-reply to any password promtps that scp asks for when >> logging into all the servers. If I am right I believe readline needs >> to be used. If it can't be done in bash can you give me a perl >> alternative please. >> >> Thanks for your help. >> >> Dan >> > > Hi Dan, > > You might want to use autoexpect for that. > > This can get you in security problems since you'd need to write your > password in the script, but as long as you use user and groups perms > correctly you should kinda safe. > > Manuel. > Hi Manuel, Thankyou for your suggestion, is there any chance of getting the above scripted by yourself. I've never used autoexpect before. I appreciate the advice anyway. Thanks Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
