Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi
Can anyone help me in automate a ssh session with password using shell script

You'll want to look into using keys-based authentication instead of passwords.

OpenSSH Public Key Authentication

also you can take a look at "expect", which is pretty simple to do interactive job under unix.

link for expect Expect - Expect - Home Page

thanks for replying but the problem is i have a shared home folder between two servers and my write access is also within the home folder. So i need to ssh some commands from one server to the other without asking for password or automatically providing the password.

Did you actually try what the others said? Public key authentication should do what you want. When you don't set a passphrase while setting up public key authentication, it won't ask for one when you remotely connect.

so when you do:

Code:

ssh test@testserver.com

You will get to the home folder of the user you logged into on the remote server, without the need of providing a password.

Hi dejavu
Public key authentication does not work since the home folder is shared between the servers, so when u run the keygen command, it creates the .ssh folder on the home folder and it replicates on the other server too. So when i tried to create a authorized_keys folder and put the public key, it again replicates, and so it dint work

So i need to automate the password reply....

The public key thing soes not work bcos of the shared home folder... when you run the keygen command, a .ssh folder will be created, but since it is shared the same is created on the other server too... and when i tried to create a authorized_keys folder and put the public key file, it is replicated in the source server too... so this dint work... So is there any way to automate this process even with password in the script ... the problem is i have write access only on my home folder, which is shared between the two servers.