Shell Programming and Scripting

hi all,
in a ksh script, how do i send username and password to the command prompt ??

also is it possible to substitute the password as **** so people running the script cant see the actual password ??


thanks in advance.

https://www.unix.com/shell-programmin...-password.html

Code:

#! /usr/bin/ksh

print -n "Enter password - "
stty -echo
read PASSWORD
stty echo
print

Then just use $PASSWORD where you need it.

thanks for the reply. i am writing a script which restarts an app server. when i issue the restart command in this script, it prompts me for username and password.

i know the username and password, i wanted to know how to make my ksh script write/send the username/password to the prompt ??

ta.

Have a look at: Man Page for expect (All Section 1) - The UNIX and Linux Forums

thanks for the reply. Unfortunately i dont have expect on the server i need to run my script from.

ta.

What Operating System do you have (uname -a) ?

What commands are in in your ksh script to restart the application server?

Is the application server on your local machine or on a remote server? This is a very important question.

Which program wants to know a username and password ?
Is it a unix username and password or has the request come from the application for a username and password?

OS : SunOS serverName 5.10 Generic_141414-07 sun4v sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise-T5120

command in the shell to restart server : asadmin start-domain [serverName]
this is a sun one application server

Application server is on the same machine as the shell script.

the application server startup wants to know the username and password before it will fire up the server instance.


thanks heaps for your questions and replies so far.