Carlos E. R. pecked at the keyboard and wrote: > > > Hi, > > I want to enter an ssh session without having to type the password (to > be used by a script). The "remote" is a router with embedded, and it is > not possible to create public key pairs because it is not a shell, but > one with a limited command set. > > I can give the user, like: > > ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > but I haven't found a way in the man to give also the password, as there > is for instance in ftp. > > I think there is something like chat ? but I'v never used it and I'm > unsure how. > > > If any one is worried about security, don't: for instance, if you use > subversion with ssh access (to Novell, for instance) the password is > stored in clear text in ~/.subversion/auth, and the file is world > readable! (Was, rather, I changed it). So subversion must be giving the > password somehow. > > -- Cheers, > Carlos Robinson
Try using expect to do what you want. I used expect when connecting to Cisco routers to do configuration changes with the password embedde3d in the expect script. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
