Re: Expect Script under X-Windows

["Thomas Chadwick" <j_tetazoo at hotmail dot com>]

So you're writing a script that very likely will contain a password in 
cleartext?  How secure is that?

> From: "szelkov@earthlink.net" <szelkov@earthlink.net>
> Reply-To: szelkov@earthlink.net
> To: mbardiaux@peaktime.be,  cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> 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 mbardiaux@peaktime.be
> Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 18:37:32 +0200
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> 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.
>
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