Re: Expect Script under X-Windows

["szelkov at earthlink dot net" <szelkov at earthlink dot net>]

It's only on my own machine with proper permissions. 

Original Message:
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From: Thomas Chadwick j_tetazoo@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 13:07:09 -0400
To: szelkov@earthlink.net, cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
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: "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:
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>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.
>
>--
>Michel Bardiaux
>Peaktime Belgium S.A.  Bd. du Souverain, 191  B-1160 Bruxelles
>Tel : +32 2 790.29.41
>
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