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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Error in spawn and expect for password Post 302921325 by Corona688 on Thursday 16th of October 2014 11:17:03 AM
Old 10-16-2014
No you are not. You are kludging passwords into scp with the expect brute-forcing tool. You wouldn't need it at all if you used ssh/scp/sftp as they were intended to be used -- it would work in a single line, unattended.

sshpass is also a terrible idea. Putting passwords on the commandline leaves them wide open to be viewed by snoopers.

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spawn.h(3HEAD)							      Headers							    spawn.h(3HEAD)

NAME
spawn.h, spawn - spawn SYNOPSIS
#include <spawn.h> DESCRIPTION
The <spawn.h> header defines the posix_spawnattr_t and posix_spawn_file_actions_t types used in performing spawn operations. The <spawn.h> header defines the flags that can be set in a posix_spawnattr_t object using the posix_spawnattr_setflags() function: POSIX_SPAWN_RESETIDS POSIX_SPAWN_SETPGROUP POSIX_SPAWN_SETSCHEDPARAM POSIX_SPAWN_SETSCHEDULER POSIX_SPAWN_SETSIGDEF POSIX_SPAWN_SETSIGMASK Inclusion of the <spawn.h> header can make visible symbols defined in the <sched.h>, <signal.h>, and <sys/types.h> headers. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Standard | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
sched.h(3HEAD), semaphore.h(3HEAD), signal.h(3HEAD), types.h(3HEAD), attributes(5), standards(5) SunOS 5.10 10 Sep 2004 spawn.h(3HEAD)
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