Experts,

Hello !

Im running into something that I cant seem to find an answer to. I have a script and it does the following set of actions -

1. Cd to one specific directory
2. Look for all the files that contain a string and once a occurence of the string is found,
3. Pipe that output to awk as input and print $3.

Upto this point, I was able to do it without any issue and the script runs well.

Now, here comes the challenge. I need to run the above script on more than one machine and I just don't know how to do it.
Im sure there must be many folks out there who must be doing this on a daily basis.

Here are the following steps that I undertook
Method 1 :
1. I generated a public & private key pair and I did happen to add authroized_keys file with the contents of id_rsa.pub and they both have the same size.
2. After the above step, I ran this, ssh user@machine and strangely enough, it asks for my password AGAIN ! So, I enter that one more time assuming that I didnt correlate my userid/password combo with the machine that Im connecting to.
3. So, I try to connect to the machine again by keying ssh user@machien & it only lets me in if I entered the correct password...not the key value that I entered. This lets me believe that generating the public & private keys is not in any shape or form easing the situation.

Method 2:

Code:

while read machine user password
do
expect -c "set timeout -1;\
spawn ssh $user@$machine $1;\
match_max 100000;\
expect *password:*;\
send -- $password;\
interact;"
done < "passfile.txt

When I run the above lines, it throws the following errors -

Code:

-bash: spawn: command not found
-bash: match_max: command not found
couldn't read file "*?assword:*": no such file or directory
-bash: send: command not found
-bash: send: command not found

This makes me believe that it is not the right path that I should undertake.

Also, when I do this, "ssh user@machine ls " and after entering password, it is showing me all of the contents on machine without any issue.

Now, the admin is out of town and I honestly have no clue what Im doing other than googling stuff out and if I need any help, there is offshore but getting any real help is pretty much an exercise in pulling teeth out.

Any and all help is greatly appreciated & will be cherished.

regards,
Lee.