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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to use 'expect' to pass UID & Password to a "for loop" in shell script? Post 302873157 by in2nix4life on Monday 11th of November 2013 09:01:33 AM
Old 11-11-2013
Here's a very basic way using Expect that should hopefully set you on the path to what you want to accomplish:

Code:
#!/usr/bin/expect -f
#
#

# set credentials - NOT RECOMMENDED METHOD
set u "username"
set p "password"

# get host name from command-line
set h [lindex $argv 0]

# set the command to run
set cmd "date"

# spawn a connection to the host and
# run the given command
spawn ssh -t $u@$h $cmd

# handle the password prompt
expect "?assword:*"
send -- "$p\r"
send -- "\r"

# done
expect eof

I've found reading files using Expect to be a bit flaky, so you could use a while loop to parse your file with the hostnames and feed it to the Expect script like so:

while read hosts;do sendCmd $hosts;done < server_list

Output:

spawn ssh -t username@server1 date
username's Password:
Mon Nov 11 08:52:42 EST 2013
Connection to server1 closed.

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Last edited by in2nix4life; 11-12-2013 at 01:50 PM..
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

       Xrlogin opens an xterm window and runs ssh, rlogin or telnet to login to a remote host.

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