Bash: Input password into a variable

1veedo · 08-22-2010, 04:12 PM

Hey I'm basically setting up two sshfs mounts and I have it set up so I run one command but type my password twice.

Is there an easy to way to input a password using bash and pass that variable to another process asking for a password?

konsolebox · 08-22-2010, 09:42 PM

What are the commands you use to change the password?

1veedo · 08-23-2010, 01:32 PM

Code:

sshfs user@ip:/XX /XX && sshfs user@ip:/XX /XX

Just thought it would be cool if I could put that in a bash script and have it ask for my password up front, piping it to those two commands or something.

rgdacosta · 08-23-2010, 02:29 PM

echo "password" | sshfs -o password_stdin user@ip:/share1 /mountpoint1 && echo "password" | sshfs -o password_stdin user@ip:/share2 /mountpoint2

1veedo · 08-23-2010, 05:11 PM

Awesome I ended up doing this.

Code:

read -s -p "Password: " password
echo "$password" | sshfs -o password_stdin sshfs user@ip:/XX /XX && etc

konsolebox · 08-24-2010, 03:07 AM

It might also be a good idea to ask the password twice for verification. You can see this example:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...7/#post4061354