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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Automate the menu options using shell script Post 302900357 by shivakumar6g on Tuesday 6th of May 2014 10:13:45 AM
Old 05-06-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by rbatte1
If this is calling the supplied passwd command, then it will be difficult. The thing is that passwd will empty/ignore the input buffer you may supply and this is to stop people trying to subvert or bypass it.

There are some brute-force methods, but they increase the risk to compromising you accounts and losing access so you can't undo it.

My guess is that you want to automate setting your password across multiple servers which each have a simple menu system on them. Not a good plan. If you want to tie machines together in such a way, consider using one of:-
  • SSH keys
  • LDAP
  • NIS


Can you confirm what you really want to do/bypass?



Robin
Hi Robin,

Actually the code of the menu items and corresponding calls to each option already done by some developers
may task is to test the options are working correctly or not.
i am giving one more example for
when i enter 3, the system version will be displayed by running a command "sudo /opt/systeminfo/version.sh"
output displayed for the input:
System Information:
------------------------
Version:1.0.0.1
Build number:12

Now using the automated script for this option
1.start the menu
2.Enter the value 3
3.Validate whether the Version and build number are similar to what exit in version
4.Display the report
Now i can be able to do 1 and 2 steps but how to do the step3 and step4...
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

install-menu

install-menu(1) 					      Debian GNU/Linux manual						   install-menu(1)

NAME

       install-menu - Process a menu method and generate the menu files for a window manager or a menu-aware application.

DESCRIPTION

       update-menus(1) computes the list of menu entries and passes it in turn to the menu methods in /etc/menu-methods/. The task of a menu meth-
       ods is to generate menus for a specific window manager.	install-menu provides a generic and customizable way to do that. The documentation
       of the install-menu definition language is available in the Debian Menu manual, a local copy being available in /usr/share/doc/menu/html.

SYNOPSIS

       install-menu [-vh] [--remove] <menu-method>

       Read menu entries from stdin in update-menus --stdout format and generate menu files using the specified menu-method.

       Normally used in menu method scripts as #! /usr/bin/install-menu.

OPTIONS

       -h,--help
	      Show the help message and exit.

       --remove
	      Remove the menu files instead of generating them.

       -v,--verbose
	      Output messages about what the program is doing.

COPYING

       install-menu is distributed under the term of the GNU General Public License version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

AUTHOR

       Written by Joost Witteveen <joostje@debian.org>.  Now maintained by Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>.

SEE ALSO

       update-menus(1), menufile(5), /usr/share/doc/menu/html

Debian Project							 28 November 2005						   install-menu(1)
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