[ACCEPTED]-How can I make an expect script prompt for a password?-expect
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Use expect's stty command like this:
# grab the password
stty -echo
send_user -- "Password for $user@$host: "
expect_user -re "(.*)\n"
send_user "\n"
stty echo
set pass $expect_out(1,string)
#... later
send -- "$pass\r"
Note that 4 it's important to call stty -echo before calling send_user -- I'm 3 not sure exactly why: I think it's a timing 2 issue.
expect programmers should all read 1 the book: Exploring Expect by Don Libes
OK, merging the 2 answers above (or below 3 or wherever they are now!):
#!/usr/bin/expect
log_user 0
set timeout 10
set userid "XXXXX"
set pass "XXXXXX"
### Get two arguments - (1) Host (2) Command to be executed
set host [lindex $argv 0]
set command [lindex $argv 1]
# grab the password
stty -echo
send_user -- "Password for $userid@$host: "
expect_user -re "(.*)\n"
send_user "\n"
stty echo
set pass $expect_out(1,string)
spawn /usr/bin/ssh -l $userid $host
match_max [expr 32 * 1024]
expect {
-re "RSA key fingerprint" {send "yes\r"}
timeout {puts "Host is known"}
}
expect {
-re "username: " {send "$userid\r"}
-re "(P|p)assword: " {send "$pass\r"}
-re "Warning:" {send "$pass\r"}
-re "Connection refused" {puts "Host error -> $expect_out(buffer)";exit}
-re "Connection closed" {puts "Host error -> $expect_out(buffer)";exit}
-re "no address.*" {puts "Host error -> $expect_out(buffer)";exit}
timeout {puts "Timeout error. Is host down or unreachable?? ssh_expect";exit}
}
expect {
-re "\[#>]$" {send "term len 0\r"}
timeout {puts "Error reading prompt -> $expect_out(buffer)";exit}
}
expect {
-re "\[#>]$" {send "$command\r"}
timeout {puts "Error reading prompt -> $expect_out(buffer)";exit}
}
expect -re "\[#>]$"
set output $expect_out(buffer)
send "exit\r"
puts "$output\r\n"
Note that I changed 2 the $password variable to $pass to be consistent 1 with the other answer.
Alternatively you could let ssh collect 2 the password via X11 using the SSH_ASKPASS 1 environment variable.
From the man page:
> SSH_ASKPASS
> If ssh needs a passphrase, it will read the passphrase from the
> current terminal if it was run from a terminal. If ssh does not
> have a terminal associated with it but DISPLAY and SSH_ASKPASS
> are set, it will execute the program specified by SSH_ASKPASS
> and open an X11 window to read the passphrase. This is particularly
> useful when calling ssh from a .xsession or related script.
> (Note that on some machines it may be necessary to redirect the
> input from /dev/null to make this work.)
Source:
stackoverflow.com
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