[CLUE-Tech] Bash and password entry

[Brandon N]

What you probably want is "expect"  Unfortunatly with that name it's a
little hard to search on it.  I found the freshmeat entry:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/expect/?topic_id=45

Brandon
--- Matt Gushee <mgushee at havenrock.com> wrote:
> Hi, all--
> 
> I was wondering how you can handle password entry in a shell script.
> I was thinking about writing a script that would synchronize certain
> directories on 2 hosts, using scp ... obviously it would be nice not
> to have to enter a password/passphrase for each file copied, but I
> don't know how (or if) I could store a password in a variable and 
> reuse it.
> 
> I now realize that for this particular problem the easiest and
> probably
> best solution is just to run the script in an ssh-agent session. But 
> I've thought in the past about automating various tasks that involve
> passwords, and there isn't always a convenient password-preserving
> shell available. Is there a utility you can call from bash to handle
> passwords?
> -- 
> Matt Gushee
> Englewood, Colorado, USA
> mgushee at havenrock.com
> http://www.havenrock.com/
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