I ended up just storing all the passwords, then the script becomes trivial. Is there a reasonable way to do this without storing passwords?
Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: Thomas David Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, December 3, 2002 12:30 pm Subject: [Sharity-talk] passwords and scripts > I would like to write a script that will automatically mount a share > using sharity when a user logs in. My platform is IRIX. I've > written a > script that works fine from the command line, but it prompts the > user to > enter the password there at the command line. If I try to run this > script through the GUI by double-clicking the icon of the script, > thereis a problem, since the GUI dialog window does not pop up. > The prompt > goes to the console instead of the GUI, and the prompts are just > rollingalong with error messages in between. > > I know I could use the -P option in the script, but then I'd have > to put > the password in the script (bad security) and make a different script > for each user (tedius). > > Is there an "official" solution for this problem? > > I discovered an approach for a work-around by accident. If I > double-click the script, then send that process a kill -HUP, then the > GUI dialog pops up and asks for the password! This is a bit > awkward, but > I might be able to script something that uses it. > > Dave > > _______________________________________________ > Sharity-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe see http://at.obdev.at/mailman/listinfo/sharity-talk > _______________________________________________ Sharity-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe see http://at.obdev.at/mailman/listinfo/sharity-talk
