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Old 04-07-2015
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 user account to monitor ).

Can someone help me please SmilieSmilieSmilie
Last edited by bobochacha29; 04-07-2015 at 06:08 AM..
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Old 04-07-2015
Use ssh-keygen. Google or seach within the forum for more details.
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Old 04-07-2015
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Originally Posted by clx
Use ssh-keygen. Google or seach within the forum for more details.
As I said above, the authentication keys doesn't work in this case ( actually it's because of the limit of the OS and some security reasons )
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Old 04-07-2015
For security reasons, it would make sense to enable ssh and not enforcing plaintext passwords in scripts, as THAT is a higher risk, due to the passwords beeing readable by everyone!
Specialy, since you want to ssh on your server...

Just my 2 cents.
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Originally Posted by bobochacha29
As I said above, the authentication keys doesn't work in this case ( actually it's because of the limit of the OS and some security reasons )

Ah, I missed that point. You mentioned there is no option to use those! What issues you facing?

Apart from ssh-keygen, you can use expect.
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Originally Posted by sea
For security reasons, it would make sense to enable ssh and not enforcing plaintext passwords in scripts, as THAT is a higher risk, due to the passwords beeing readable by everyone!
Specialy, since you want to ssh on your server...

Just my 2 cents.
Because of the limit of the OS version of the server ( which can not update to a higher version ) I want to ssh, I can not ssh without password to that server by an user account ( it requires admin account ). If I could done it, I would have done it already.

So please stop talking about the ssh-keygen. SmilieSmilieSmilie

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Quote:
Originally Posted by clx
Ah, I missed that point. You mentioned there is no option to use those! What issues you facing?

Apart from ssh-keygen, you can use expect.
Could you show me detail code, because I found some examples using expect, but it seems not work SmilieSmilieSmilie. Thank you
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Old 04-07-2015
Assuming that you are not using ssh at all, can I presume that rlogin would be allowed? You can grant (for a given user) the source addresses that can rlogin to it without further credentials being required.


Does that offer an option? I would try to avoid expect if possible because of the risks and complexities that it introduces.




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