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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting OSX bash & expect Post 302773337 by jnojr on Wednesday 27th of February 2013 05:12:54 PM
Old 02-27-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by DGPickett
I usually write expect using autoexpect. It is very fussy! Perhaps use quoted real tabs?
The lines with the tabs are not in the expect portion. I did replace them with real tabs, and that works, but... jeez Louise! That isn't very maintainable!

Here's what I'm trying to get. In my non-expect version, I use:

Code:
  ssh $host ls /etc/cma.conf >/dev/null 2>&1
  if [ "$?" -eq 0 ]; then
    ssh -t $host 'sudo -v'
    HBSSVER=`ssh $host 'sudo cat /etc/cma.conf' | grep CMABuildNumber | cut -d'>' -f2 | cut -d '<' -f1`
  fi

That works... it returns a four-digit build number, which is exactly what I want. But that scrip prompts me for my sudo password once for each host it hits, which can be a pain. So in my expect version, I have:

Code:
  ssh $host ls /etc/cma.conf >/dev/null 2>&1
  if [ "$?" -eq 0 ]; then
/usr/bin/expect <<EOD
spawn ssh -t $host sudo -v
expect "Password:"
send "$SUDOPASS\r"
EOD
    HBSSVER=`ssh -t $host sudo cat /etc/cma.conf | grep CMABuildNumber | cut -d'>' -f2 | cut -d'<' -f1`
  fi

That is very literally the only difference between the two versions of my script. I am befuddled as to why that screws up tabs in other lines. Also, this way, my HBSSVER= line no longer works... it hangs at my cut statements. IIRC, that's why I was using 'sudo -v', so that the password could be entered and cached on the remote host, and the second line could just run without prompting.

And, yes, I know I technically could change permissions on the /etc/cma.conf file to no longer need sudo That isn't an option, either. If you've never dealt with HBSS, consider yourself lucky and just trust me Smilie
 

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LEARN ABOUT XFREE86

ssh-keysign

ssh-keysign(1M) 														   ssh-keysign(1M)

NAME

       ssh-keysign - ssh helper program for host-based authentication

SYNOPSIS

       ssh-keysign

       ssh-keysign  is	used  by ssh(1) to access the local host keys and generate the digital signature required during host-based authentication
       with SSH protocol version 2. This signature is of data that includes, among other items, the name of the client host and the  name  of  the
       client user.

       ssh-keysign  is	disabled  by  default and can be enabled only in the global client configuration file /etc/ssh/ssh_config by setting Host-
       basedAuthentication to yes.

       ssh-keysign is not intended to be invoked by the user, but from ssh. See ssh(1) and sshd(1M) for more information about host-based  authen-
       tication.

       /etc/ssh/ssh_config

	   Controls whether ssh-keysign is enabled.

       /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
       /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key

	   These  files  contain the private parts of the host keys used to generate the digital signature. They should be owned by root, readable
	   only by root, and not accessible to others. Because they are readable only by root, ssh-keysign must  be  set-uid  root  if	host-based
	   authentication is used.

       ssh-keysign will not sign host-based authentication data under the following conditions:

	 o  If the HostbasedAuthentication client configuration parameter is not set to yes in /etc/ssh/ssh_config. This setting cannot be overri-
	    den in users' ~/.ssh/ssh_config files.

	 o  If the client hostname and username in /etc/ssh/ssh_config do not match the canonical hostname of  the  client  where  ssh-keysign	is
	    invoked and the name of the user invoking ssh-keysign.

       In  spite of ssh-keysign's restrictions on the contents of the host-based authentication data, there remains the ability of users to use it
       as an avenue for obtaining the client's private host keys. For this reason host-based authentication is turned off by default.

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWsshu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Evolving			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

       ssh(1), sshd(1M), ssh_config(4), attributes(5)

AUTHORS

       Markus Friedl, markus@openbsd.org

HISTORY

       ssh-keysign first appeared in Ox 3.2.

								    9 Jun 2004							   ssh-keysign(1M)
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