hi there i am new here, and I would like to ask you how am i able to write a script that automatically logins into a server

what i did is this :

I have create a file call connectServer for example , with vim , and inside i have put this commands:

echo welcome
ssh -l myUsername login.someserver.com
echo bye

and i ve setup an alias that runs this script
such as :
in .bashrc
alias server="sh connectServer"

that works perfectly but what i want is when i am asked for the password , i want the script to fill it ..

Is this possible ?

thanks,
venix

Yes..check out the expect command. Also, there are several modules in Perl that will let you send/receive/process terminal IO.

What you are looking for is a so-called "unattended SSH login". See a tutorial on this on
http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/02/...tomatic-login/

In a nutshell:
You probably want to setup a public key authentication which allows you to login via ssh without a password, so you have to generate your authentication key-pair, and install the public key on the server by adding it to the ssh/authorized_keys file. The tutorial has the details.

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T74marcell

Arch Linux

No need to stray to Ubuntu forums ... ;}
http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/...ation_with_ssh


Cheers,
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