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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Automated SCP script passing password to preserve source file timestamp Post 302439979 by Corona688 on Sunday 25th of July 2010 11:33:04 AM
Old 07-25-2010
Ugh...

That you're having to shoehorn a stored plaintext password into scp's otherwise secure authentication system with expect is a subtle hint, writ in mile-high flashing neon letters: You're not supposed to do this. It's designed to stop you doing this for security reasons, use pre-shared keys instead -- it's what they're there for. There's instructions for it plastered all over the internet. They do exactly what you want except they don't have the security problems of storing a plaintext password, and don't have the poor reliability and extra wait and extra software requirements of an interactive input manually brute-forced with expect.

Testing it here, copying from a remote host with scp -p does indeed preserve the timestamp, and without a password given pre-shared keys, and definitely non-interactively, deprived of any sort of terminal. I'd expect it to be an expect weirdness, or perhaps an odd version of ssh.
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

delete-connector-security-map

asadmin-delete-connector-security-map(1)			   User Commands			  asadmin-delete-connector-security-map(1)

NAME

       asadmin-delete-connector-security-map,  delete-connector-security-map  -  deletesthe  named security map for the given connector connection
       pool

SYNOPSIS

       delete-connector-security-map --user admin_user [--password admin_password] [--host localhost] [--port 4848] [--secure|-s]  [--passwordfile
       filename] [--terse=false] [--echo=false] [--interactive=true] --poolname connector_connection_pool_name mapname

       Deletes the named security map for the given connector connection pool.	This command is supported in remote mode only.

OPTIONS

       --user		       authorized domain application server administrative username.

       --password	       password to administer the domain application server.

       --host		       machine name where the domain application server is running.

       --port		       port number of the domain application server listening for administration requests.

       --secure 	       if true, uses SSL/TLS to communicate with the domain application server.

       --passwordfile	       file containing the domain application server password.

       --terse		       indicates that any output data must be very concise, typically avoiding human-friendly sentences and favoring well-
			       formatted data for consumption by a script. Default is false.

       --echo		       setting to true will echo the command line statement on the standard output. Default is false.

       --interactive	       if set to true (default), only the required password options are prompted.

       --poolname	       connector connection pool name for which the security map that is to be deleted belongs to.

OPERANDS

       mapname		       name of the security map to be deleted.

       Example 1: Using delete-connector-security-map

       asadmin> delete-connector-security-map --user admin --password adminadmin
       --poolname connector-pool1 securityMap1
       Command delete-connector-security-map executed successfully

EXIT STATUS

       0		       command executed successfully

       1		       error in executing the command

       asadmin- create-connector-security-map(1AS), asadmin-list-connector-security-maps(1AS), asadmin-update-connector-security-map(1AS)

J2EE 1.4 SDK							    March 2004				  asadmin-delete-connector-security-map(1)
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