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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Crontab - password prompting Post 302977310 by Daniel Gate on Friday 15th of July 2016 04:14:56 PM
Old 07-15-2016
Crontab - password prompting
// Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.7

I wanted to pass the password, but when I execute this cron, it stops at
HTML Code:
Password:
prompt.

Please advise on how to fix the error. Thank you for tour help in advance.

Code:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
su - pmserver
echo "su - pmserver"
cd /cerner/d_prod/extract/archive
echo "cd /cerner/d_prod/extract/archive"
export SSHPASS=abcd1234
sshpass -e sftp -oBatchMode=no -b - sftp-root@piapp << !
cd /cerner/d_piprd/extract/landing
mput edw_*stats*.dat
sleep5
mput dw_*.dat
sleep 30
exit 
!
echo "exited"

 

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