How to enter a password in the script automatically when prompted?


 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to enter a password in the script automatically when prompted?
# 1  
Old 07-08-2009
How to enter a password in the script automatically when prompted?

Hi Friends,

We need to create a script which will invoke a command with diffrent parameters.

The command invoked needs the password. So how automatically we can enter password in the script to the command?

example.:

#!/bin/ksh

for par in `cat parfile` do

# Here is the main command that needs password
add_space $par 3000MB
##password will be prompted...

done

in this case how we can make script that will automatically enter password?

Thanks in advance..
# 2  
Old 07-08-2009
This question has been asked at least n times (where n is a large number). Use the sites search feature looking for "automatic password" or "send password" or "expect"
Login or Register to Ask a Question

Previous Thread | Next Thread

9 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Script that automatically issue "yes" and press enter

Team, Got a thousand servers. I created a script to say hello on every server. But is there a script or whatever that will issue a yes on every key checking. for i in `cat myserverlist` do echo $i ssh-copy-id $i done The authenticity of host 'server1 (162.162.0.10)' can't be... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: invinzin21
7 Replies

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

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. #!/usr/bin/expect -f... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: jbrass
2 Replies

3. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Prompted for password when reverse SSH connecting

Dear Experts, I am writing a batch script to transfer files from server AA to BB without prompting for password. Already, ssh keys have been generated in BB and public key of BB has been stored in AA as part of some other project requirement. So, I thought of reusing this. I can now transfer... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: ss112233
6 Replies

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

How to automatically enter password in a script?

Hi I'm working with AIX 6.1 I would like to ssh to a server without entering password ( to monitor something) but there's no way to do that by authentication keys, so I need to write a script which can ssh to that server without entering password ( no need to hide passsword in the script, just an... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: bobochacha29
9 Replies

5. Red Hat

changing which password is prompted for in sudoers

Basically I only want particular users to know the root password, but I also want power users to be able to run certain commands with root privileges. All admins for this box will be authenticating initially through winbind (I do have a backdoor account in case winbind goes wonky) I want... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: thmnetwork
0 Replies

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Script to automatically enter a password

I need to retrieve thousands of lines of information from hundreds of nodes. Each node requires a passowrd in order to retrieve the information. Fortunately, the password is the same for each one of them. So I am trying to come up with a script that would allow me to include the password so I can... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: Ernst
0 Replies

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

how to enter hardcoded password automatically

In the script i am passing a command from script which is called from cron. When this command is called from cron the unix prompt asks for password. Can we automatically enter the password when promted(if the password is hardcoded in script)?? Please let me know how to enter the password... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: abhi_n123
4 Replies

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

enter password at prompt during a script?

I'm using rsync with the "-e ssh" option so of course it asks for a password using a prompt. Is there a way to tell a script to expect a prompt, wait for it, and give a password when it arrives? There is a way to give rsync a password as part of its options using a file, but it only works with... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: davidstvz
2 Replies

9. HP-UX

Prompted for System Password during login

Hello, I'm new to HP-UX. I have a system running B.11.23 on ia64. The system gets its user passwords via active directory. Everytime a new account is added to AD a script pushes out the account info to all the systems and this system is updated too. However, on this machine, users are unable to... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: BFLO
2 Replies
Login or Register to Ask a Question