This one time, at band camp, Rod Butcher wrote: >I need to get my shell script to login to something and then enter a >password at a prompt.. i.e. unattended operation. I can't get the script >to feed it the password, it always prompts me.. lets say userid=xxxxxx, >password=yyyyyy > >xyz login xxxxxx >>password : > >at this point I want the shell script to feed it the password yyyyyy > >I've tried | , < to no avail. Read the manpages. no dice. >pointers greatfully received
The password is being read from a tty, not stdin, so you should use somethign like expect (if you like to whip yourself) or perhaps the Expect modules for perl or python may be more palatable. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
