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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Automatic su password entry script Post 302884200 by 3therk1ll on Saturday 18th of January 2014 09:46:46 AM
Old 01-18-2014
Automatic su password entry script
Before I start, two things.

1) Yes I know it's bad practice and obomination to all things holy, but I'm not a sys admin at JP Morgan, I'm a hobbyist tooling about in a VM, in my pants, at home.

2) If you are just going to flame for even considering hardcoding a root password, thanks, I get it.

So here goes.
I have the following script:

Code:
#!/bin/bash
clear
echo
whoami
echo
PASS="1234"
expect -c "spawn su
expect -nocase \"password:\" {send \"$PASS\r\" ; interact ; whoami }"
#Scripts exits at this point
echo -ne "Name: "
read name
echo
echo $name

It works fine in that it enters the password and elevates the privileges of the user.
The problem is that it then exits at the marked point and does not continue to the code below.
Any ideas why this is?

Running Backbox 64 Bit in VMPlayer
Last edited by 3therk1ll; 01-18-2014 at 10:47 AM.. Reason: Forgot system details
 

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NAME

       asadmin-list-connector-connection-pools, list-connector-connection-pools - gets all the connection pools

SYNOPSIS

       list-connector-connection-pools	--user admin_user [--password admin_password] [--host localhost] [--port 4848] [--secure |-s] [--password-
       file filename] [--terse=false] [--echo=false] [--interactive=true]

       gets all the connector connection pools. 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.

       Example 1: Using list-connector-connection-pools

       asadmin> list-connector-connection-pools --user admin
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EXIT STATUS

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