On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 11:16 +0100, Sharpe, Sam J wrote: > Dan Track wrote: > > 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. > If security is not a concern, write a simple script that accepts the > password and provides it to sshpass (which isn't packaged for Fedora as > it's a huge huge security nightmare): http://freshmeat.net/projects/sshpass/ > > e.g.: > [sam@sam ~]$ export SSHPASS=mypass > [sam@sam ~]$ sshpass -e ssh unixdb2-vm > [sam@unixdb2-vm ~]$ > > In your case, you'd want something like "sshpass -e scp /etc/hosts > orion:/etc/" > Dan, The "magic" of autoexpec is that it does everything you do for you, here you are an example: First I start autoexpect and then I do whatever I want expect to do for me root@life:~# autoexpect autoexpect started, file is script.exp root@life:~# ssh root@xxxxxxxxxxxx root@xxxxxxxxxxxx's password: Last login: Fri Apr 24 12:45:04 2009 from 192.168.50.103 [root@galaga ~]# ls /opt/lzo-2.02/ aclocal.m4 autoconf ChangeLog config.log configure.ac examples libtool Makefile.am NEWS stamp-h1 util asm B config.h config.status COPYING include lzotest Makefile.in README tests AUTHORS BUGS config.hin configure doc INSTALL Makefile minilzo src THANKS [root@galaga ~]# exit logout Connection to 192.168.50.1 closed. root@life:~# exit exit autoexpect done, file is script.exp root@life:~# chmod +x script.exp Now I execute my script: root@life:~# ./script.exp spawn /bin/bash root@life:~# ssh root@xxxxxxxxxxxx root@xxxxxxxxxxxx's password: Last login: Fri Apr 24 12:46:01 2009 from 192.168.50.103 [root@galaga ~]# ls /opt/lzo-2.02/ aclocal.m4 autoconf ChangeLog config.log configure.ac examples libtool Makefile.am NEWS stamp-h1 util asm B config.h config.status COPYING include lzotest Makefile.in README tests AUTHORS BUGS config.hin configure doc INSTALL Makefile minilzo src THANKS [root@galaga ~]# exit logout Connection to 192.168.50.1 closed. root@life: I had to change some minor stuff in script.exp to adapt it to my system but all the major stuff is done automatically. Anyways, as Joachim, you might want to read a little bit about expect before trying this. Manuel. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
