Hello everybody,
I am trying to make a shell script which will access a server present in my local network whose ip is 172.26.31.2 through ssh and restarts the network service. Its port no. is 1952

My own ip is: 172.16.31.176


For accessing it i use:-

ssh -p 1952 172.16.31.2

But i am unable to write the part of script which will supply the password whenever it prompts for password.

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For restarting the service i can use

service network restart

Shell used by me is : /bin/sh

I will be thankful to u all....if u help me for this..

Regards
Hasmeet Singh

Is there a reason for not using keys so you don't need the password?

Sir i have the password with me, i just want to make my task easy to login in the server,restart the network service and logout

Hello,

You can use sshpass to pass the password onto the SSH session and execute the command. Also if you want to restart the network service be sure that the user you use to connect through SSH has permissions to do so. With sshpass you can open an ssh session like this:
Kind regards,

Eric

Thanks for your valueable answer sir,

By using this i am able to login to the server automatically after executing script, but i doesn't restarts the network service on server...When i manually logout from the server then it restarts the network service..

Script is written as :-



sshpass -p mypassword ssh -p portno 172.16.31.2
service network restart


Thanks in advance
Linuxlover

You might want to look into using Expect for this. Google for some tutorials.

Hello,

What you posted as script isn't complete. Please post the complete content of your script if you don't mind and put it between code tags for readability. Or did you just run the command from the terminal?

Kind regards,

Eric

why dont you just enter: ssh -p 1952 172.16.31.2 service network restart
It will prompt you for your password, run the command, return the output and then disconnect.

All with one command....

What about using ssh-keys with an ssh-agent?