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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash scripting mask password from ps Post 303023731 by rbatte1 on Friday 21st of September 2018 09:58:33 AM
Old 09-21-2018
Just a thought, why do you need to use expect to perform the login to your servers? Would SSH keys not be a more secure way to achieve this? It would reduce a process where you could expose the application password.

Can you explain a bit more about what you are calling to do what?



Robin
 

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list-virtual-servers

asadmin-list-virtual-servers(1AS)				   User Commands				 asadmin-list-virtual-servers(1AS)

NAME

       asadmin-list-virtual-servers, list-virtual-servers - gets the virtual servers

SYNOPSIS

       list-virtual-servers --user admin_user [--password admin_password] [--host localhost] [--port 4848] [--secure|-s] [--passwordfile filename]
       [--terse=false] [--echo=false] [--interactive=true]

       Gets all the virtual server elements. This command is supported in remote mode only.

OPTIONS

       --user		       authorized domain application server administrative username.

       --password	       password to administer the domain application server.

       --host		       machine name where the domain application server is running.

       --port		       port number of the domain application server listening for administration requests.

       --secure 	       if true, uses SSL/TLS to communicate with the domain application server.

       --passwordfile	       file containing the domain application server password.

       --terse		       indicates that any output data must be very concise, typically avoiding human-friendly sentences and favoring well-
			       formatted data for consumption by a script. Default is false.

       --echo		       setting to true will echo the command line statement on the standard output. Default is false.

       --interactive	       if set to true (default), only the required password options are prompted.

       Example 1: Using list-virtual-servers

       asadmin> list-virtual-servers --user admin --password adminadmin
       --host localhost --port 4848
       Command list-virtual-servers executed successfully

EXIT STATUS

       0		       command executed successfully

       1		       error in executing the command

       asadmin-create-virtual-server(1AS), asadmin-delete-virtual-server(1AS)

J2EE 1.4 SDK							    March 2004					 asadmin-list-virtual-servers(1AS)
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