Thanks for the reply. Sorry i should have been more specific.
This is an expect script which internally calls another expect script to reset password on multiple servers by passing userid , oldpass , server name and newpassword.
Hello!
I'm having problems trying to extract the contents of a variable and placing it into a text file. Grateful for any help.
Been trying something along the lines of:
$variable > file.txt
or
`cat < $variable` > file.txt
As you can see I'm a newbie to this :D (2 Replies)
Hi. I'm a newbie in scripting and i have this problem: i want to use the 'fuser' command on a file to tell if it's being accessed (for my purposes: still being written). I want to save the output of the command and later compare with the 'not being used' result.
the script:
#!/bin/bash... (2 Replies)
Hi There,
I try to transfer a variable from the script to a function which use expect, but I don't succed.
#!/bin/sh
HPPASS1="$2"
send_command()
{
echo "spawn ssh login@10.10.10.10"
echo 'set password '
echo 'sleep 1'
echo 'expect "*assword:*"'... (5 Replies)
Please tell me how to pass variable "a b c" to expect from the shell script
1/ example of input file
# cat in-file
var1 var2 a b c var4
2/ # this is my script - how to pass "a b c" as single variable ?
cat in-file | while read x
do
my-expect x
done
3/ # expect script - how to... (0 Replies)
Hi all,
I would like to store the output of a command in a variable and output it to the console at the same time. This is working fine using the following construct
var=`command | tee /dev/tty`
I use this in some scripts to display the output of the command on the console and, at the same... (2 Replies)
As part of an expect script, I have to convert a strange user ID to a conventional UNIX ID. To do this, I read the contents of a file and do a little awk magic. Here's that bit of the expect script:
send "awk 'NF == 10 && \$NF == strange_user_id {print \$(NF-2)}' file_with_my_info\r"
expect... (0 Replies)
The situation is like this:
I am reading records from a file, depending upon some condition extracting fields from the file into different variables in a loop one by one. I need to print all the variable in line, so I am trying to redirect hose variables one by one to a variable called final_value... (1 Reply)
Hi everybody,
I am trying to do the thing you see in the title, and I can't simply do
a=$(svn up)
echo $a
because the program (svn) gives output on lots of lines and in the variable the output is stored on only one line (resulting in a horribly formatted text). Any tips?
Thanks,... (2 Replies)
when i do something like this:
bona=$(echo hi2 > /dev/pts/1 ; printf '%s\n' "" | sed '/^$/d')
i get:
hi2
and the $bona variable is empty, when I run:
echo ${bona}
i get the result "hi2" outside of the variable. I want it stored in the bona variable with nothing outputted to the... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: SkySmart
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mkpasswd
MKPASSWD(1) General Commands Manual MKPASSWD(1)NAME
mkpasswd - generate new password, optionally apply it to a user
SYNOPSIS
mkpasswd [ args ] [ user ]
INTRODUCTION
mkpasswd generates passwords and can apply them automatically to users. mkpasswd is based on the code from Chapter 23 of the O'Reilly book
"Exploring Expect".
USAGE
With no arguments, mkpasswd returns a new password.
mkpasswd
With a user name, mkpasswd assigns a new password to the user.
mkpasswd don
The passwords are randomly generated according to the flags below.
FLAGS
The -l flag defines the length of the password. The default is 9. The following example creates a 20 character password.
mkpasswd -l 20
The -d flag defines the minimum number of digits that must be in the password. The default is 2. The following example creates a password
with at least 3 digits.
mkpasswd -d 3
The -c flag defines the minimum number of lowercase alphabetic characters that must be in the password. The default is 2.
The -C flag defines the minimum number of uppercase alphabetic characters that must be in the password. The default is 2.
The -s flag defines the minimum number of special characters that must be in the password. The default is 1.
The -p flag names a program to set the password. By default, /etc/yppasswd is used if present, otherwise /bin/passwd is used.
The -2 flag causes characters to be chosen so that they alternate between right and left hands (qwerty-style), making it harder for anyone
watching passwords being entered. This can also make it easier for a password-guessing program.
The -v flag causes the password-setting interaction to be visible. By default, it is suppressed.
EXAMPLE
The following example creates a 15-character password that contains at least 3 digits and 5 uppercase characters.
mkpasswd -l 15 -d 3 -C 5
SEE ALSO
"Exploring Expect: A Tcl-Based Toolkit for Automating Interactive Programs" by Don Libes, O'Reilly and Associates, January 1995.
AUTHOR
Don Libes, National Institute of Standards and Technology
mkpasswd is in the public domain. NIST and I would appreciate credit if this program or parts of it are used.
22 August 1994 MKPASSWD(1)
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