It's only on my own machine with proper permissions. Original Message: ----------------- From: Thomas Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 13:07:09 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Expect Script under X-Windows
So you're writing a script that very likely will contain a password in cleartext? How secure is that? >From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Expect Script under X-Windows >Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 12:54:18 -0400 > >The normal method of logon using ssh requires the the user input a >password. Because of security issues, this cannot be circumvented by any >other method. All I wanted to do was to poll around fifty servers for >information. Each has the same logon name and password. Now, I need to >manually send the password for each and every server. > >Original Message: >----------------- >From: Michel Bardiaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 18:37:32 +0200 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Expect Script under X-Windows > > >"Zelkovitz, Sanford J (ZERO CHAOS)" wrote: > > > > I have been trying without any success to write an expect script which >would > > insert the password for ssh in an x-windows session. I am obviously >doing > > something wrong since all efforts have failed. Has anyone succeeded >where >I > > have failed? > > > > Sanford <Sandy> Zelkovitz > >Could you clarify? Which password do you mean exactly? The passphrase >for your ssh keyring? If you script that, you might as well have no >passphrase at all. > >-- >Michel Bardiaux >Peaktime Belgium S.A. Bd. du Souverain, 191 B-1160 Bruxelles >Tel : +32 2 790.29.41 > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >mail2web - Check your email from the web at >http://mail2web.com/ . _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .
