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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Automating Interactive script Post 302308847 by System Shock on Monday 20th of April 2009 12:04:55 PM
Old 04-20-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by thegeek
"yes" is a Linux command everybody is suggesting you.

If you have not got yet, execute 'yes' in your terminal which will just print y indefinitely .. that is what you wanted.

yes | your-program

which will pipe the y to your-program required number of times. ??

Got it ?
Not everybody is suggesting "yes", because it wouldn't work in this particular case. If you look at the OP input, you'll notice that he needs to input different text other than just "yes"; it asks for a specific username and a password, a path. That is why I suggested expect.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

lsh-krb-checkpw

LSH-KRB-CHECKPW(8)						    lsh manuals 						LSH-KRB-CHECKPW(8)

NAME

       lsh-krb-checkpw - program to check a Kerberos username/password combination

SYNOPSIS

       lsh-krb-checkpw username-to-check

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the lsh-krb-checkpw command.	This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the orig-
       inal program does not have a manual page.  Instead, it has documentation in the GNU Info format; see below.

       lsh-krb-checkpw is a program that checks if a username and password combination is valid for login  by  doing  a  kerberos  lookup.  It	is
       designed to be used as a password helper program for lshd (8), (eg.  --password-helper=/usr/sbin/lsh-krb-checkpw.

       lsh-krb-checkpw	takes  one  required argument, which is the username, and reads the password from stdin, then returns 0 if the password is
       valid, or 1 otherwise. Note that the password must be supplied exactly, ie. there must be no newline after the  password,  so  if  invoking
       from a shell, just type "<your-password><CTRL-D>".

SEE ALSO

       lsh(1), lshd(8).   The programs are documented fully by Lsh, available via the Info system.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Timshel Knoll <timshel@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

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