Not sure if I completly understood your requirement(as you have shown example of expect but asking us to help for prompting password because expect is used for NOT to prompt user), but could you please try following and let me know if this helps.
Now when you execute the script following will be output.
Thanks,
R. Singh
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1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data: I am trying to write a shell script that prompts the user for the password which is "lux" once the correct password... (4 Replies)
I have a script that does an SSH into a remote node. It should expect the prompt and send the password.
#!/usr/bin/expect
set user ;
set pass ;
spawn ssh $user@E-Internal
expect {
-re "RSA key fingerprint" {send "yes\r"}
timeout... (1 Reply)