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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Input password to bash script, save, and enter when needed Post 302949395 by jbrass on Friday 10th of July 2015 10:39:41 AM
Old 07-10-2015
Input password to bash script, save, and enter when needed
I am looking for a way to start a script and have it prompt for a password that will be used later on in the script to SSH to another host and to SFTP. I don't want the password to be hard coded. Below is my script with the actual IP's and usernames removed.

Code:
#!/usr/bin/expect -f
#!/usr/bin/bash
spawn -noecho bash




expect "ompsat5"

send "echo 'STARTING OUTAGE REPORT SCRIPT'\r"

expect "ompsat5"

USER=username

read -s -p "Password for $USER: " PASS



#######################################
#LOG INTO OMP 4                       #
#######################################

send "ssh username@10.10.10.10\r"
expect "Password:"

send "password\r"

#######################################
#LOG INTO OMP 4 DONE                  #
#######################################


#######################################
#RUN ALARM SCRIPT                     #
#######################################

expect "ompaus4"
send "cd /home/username/outagereport/modules\r"
send "pwd\r"
send "./austinreport.py\r"
send "exit\r"

#######################################
#RUN ALARM SCRIPT DONE                #
#######################################

#######################################
#RUN COMMAND FOR SCHERTZ ALARMS       #
#######################################
expect "ompsat5"
send "\n"
expect "Connection to"
send "./5outage.py\r"


#########################################
#DONE RUNNING COMMAND FOR SCHERTZ ALARMS#
#########################################

######################################
#SFTP REPORT TO SW 5                 #
######################################

send "sftp username@10.10.10.10\r"
expect "Password:"

send "password\r"
expect "sftp"
send "cd /home/username/outagereport/modules\r"
send "get AustinOutageReport.txt\r"
send "exit\r"

######################################
#DONE SFTP REPORT TO SW 5            #
######################################

############################################
#CD, RM, COMBINE, FORMAT, DISPLAY REPORT   #
############################################

expect "ompsat5"
send "cd /home/username/outagereport/modules\r"
send "rm masterreport.txt\r"
send "cat AustinOutageReport.txt outagereport.txt>>masterreport.txt\r"
send "./reportsed\r"
send "clear\r"
send "rm finalreport.txt\r"
send "./finalsed\r"
send "cat finalreport.txt\r"

#################################################
#DONE CD, RM, COMBINE, FORMAT, DISPLAY REPORT   #
#################################################

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send-uucp

SEND-UUCP(8)						      System Manager's Manual						      SEND-UUCP(8)

NAME

       send-uucp, send-nntp, send-ihave - send Usenet articles to remote site

SYNOPSIS

       { send-nntp | send-uucp | send-ihave } [ -d ] sitename:hostname | sitename [ sitename:hostname | sitename ..  ]

DESCRIPTION

       The send-* utilities are scripts that process the batch files written by innd(8) to send Usenet articles to a remote NNTP or UUCP site.

       The sites to be fed may be specified by giving sitename hostname pairs on the command line.

       The sitename is the label the site has in the newsfeeds file, the hostname is the real hostname of the remote site, a FQDN (Fully Qualified
       Domain Name) in the case of an NNTP host, or the UUCP name in the case of a UUCP host.  Normally, the sitename and  the	hostname  are  the
       same, and as such don't have to be specified as sitename:hostname pairs but just as a sitename.

       send-uucp compresses batches of news and sends the to the remote site with uux.

       send-nntp Starts an innxmit to send the articles to the remote site.

       send-ihave  encapsulates  the articles in an ihave control message and uses inews to send the articles to a to.sitename pseudo-group. Using
       send-ihave is discouraged, nobody uses it anymore and even the author of this manpage is unsure as to how it  actually  works  or  used	to
       work.

       send-*  expect  that  the batchfile for a site is named <pathoutgoing in inn.conf>/sitename.  To prevent batchfile corruption, shlock(1) is
       used to ``lock'' these files.

OPTIONS

       -d     The ``-d'' flag causes nntpsend to send output to stdout rather than the log file <pathlog in inn.conf>/<program-name>.log.

NOTES

       You should probably not use send-nntp, but innfeed, or if that is not possible, nntpsend.

       The usual flags in the newsfeed file to write a batch file suitable for processing by send-uucp are Tf,Wfb .

       The usual flags for a batch file for send-nntp are Tf,Wfm

SEE ALSO

       newsfeeds(5), nntpsend(8)

																      SEND-UUCP(8)
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