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Top Forums Programming Create a pipe to /dev/tty Post 302470565 by Corona688 on Wednesday 10th of November 2010 11:22:26 AM
Old 11-10-2010
As I understand it, you're trying to login with a password noninteractively? These commands read from /dev/tty as a security feature, to prevent people from being able to login with stored plaintext passwords. In other words, a less-than-subtle hint that you're not supposed to be using stored passwords to login.

Would it be possible to use ssh for this? It supports noninteractive login methods such as keys. Or configure your system to let you and only you login to one and only one specific thing without a password via the sudo utility.

Worst case, if you absolutely must, you might be able to fool it with things like the expect tool, but this is convoluted and very hard to make secure.
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dialups(4)						     Kernel Interfaces Manual							dialups(4)

NAME
dialups, d_passwd - dialup security control DESCRIPTION
and are used to control the dialup security feature of (see login(1)). If is present, the first word on each line is compared with the name of the line upon which the login is being performed (including the as returned by (see ttyname(3C)). If the login is occurring on a line found in dialup security is invoked. Anything after a space or tab is ignored. When dialup security is invoked, requests an additional password, and checks it against that found in The command name found in the ``pro- gram to use as shell'' field of is used to select the password to be used. Each entry in consists of three fields, separated by colons. The first is the command name, matching an entry in The second is the encrypted password to be used for dialup security for those users logging in to use that program. The third is commentary, but the second colon is required to delimit the end of the password. A null password is designated with two adjacent colons. The entry for is used if no other entry matches the command name taken from FILES
dial-in tty lines passwords SEE ALSO
login(1), passwd(4). dialups(4)
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