[vox-tech] [OT] Pumping a password using Expect

[Ken Bloom]

On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 06:33:40PM -0700, timriley wrote:
> How do you have a crontab executed process using Expect
> pump a password to another computer?

Is this an SSH password you're giving it? If so, try using an SSH
keypair for authentication. A passwordless key is no less secure than
having the password in the expect file (it's probably more secure),
and you can even create single-purpose keys that can only be used to
run a single command (see http://www.arches.uga.edu/~pkeck/ssh/,
scroll down to "Single-purpose keys")

Also, you can try just a simpler regexp for the password. I know very
little about expect scripts -- only in the context of having seen it
in old PPP tutorials -- but they never used a full expression to
expect logins and password. For login they always used "ogin:" and for
password they always ued "word:". This would avoid capitalization
differences.

--Ken Bloom

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