[SOLVED] expect script or oneliner

bravored · 09-26-2016, 03:54 PM

Hey All

I like a one liner or script in expect to gather uptime on all other servers.

How to specify a host file to ssh too?

This is what I have for a bash
for sys in `cat redhat`; do echo "ssh to $sys ..."; ssh $sys; done;

For Expect I have :

#!/usr/bin/expect -f

spawn passwd [lindex $argv 0]
set password [lindex $argv 1]
expect "password"
sent "$password\r"
expect "password:"
sent "$password\r"
expect eof

Where do you specify a file get the other hosts?

Thanks
Joe

Turbocapitalist · 09-27-2016, 02:19 AM

If these machines really are RHEL why aren't you using the support you've paid for?

That's not a rhetorical question. However, regardless of the answer, I'm writing to discourage the use of "expect". There must have been an article or podcast mentioning it, because there have been a lot of people bringing it up recently instead of using safer methods.

For safety, ease of use, and efficiency, I'd use special-purpose keys with or without an agent instead of "expect".

Code:

mkdir -m 700 redhat_keys
cd redhat_keys
for sys in $(cat redhat); do ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 2048 -f uptime_rsa_${sys} -N '' ; done
sed -i 's#^#command="/usr/bin/uptime -p" #' uptime*.pub

Then put the public keys on their respective target hosts using "ssh-copy-id" and verify that you can log in using the keys.

Thereafter all you have to do is log in using the keys to get the uptime:

Code:

cd redhat_keys
for sys in $(cat redhat); 
do echo "ssh to $sys ..."; 
   ssh -i ./uptime_rsa_${sys} -o IdentitiesOnly=yes $sys; 
done;

bravored · 09-27-2016, 03:03 PM

Thanks

My boss wants expect and that is what he gonna get.

Anyone know how to get expect to get to the a file with other --
Can expect -c work?

Thanks

keefaz · 09-27-2016, 04:20 PM

You mean get a file from remote host through ssh?

bravored · 09-27-2016, 04:39 PM

Well I guess in the future
Right now its using expect to get uptime from a list of server in a file called servers

I am able to pull just 1 server..

jefro · 09-27-2016, 07:32 PM

Anyway. I'd say to use autoexpect to create the script.

Turbocapitalist · 09-27-2016, 08:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bravored

My boss wants expect and that is what he gonna get.

It would be very wise to get that in writing from him, even if you have to be tricky about how you do it, because it will eventually bite someone.

If you're trying to read two files at once in bash, you can do it with additional file descriptors.

Code:

$ cat file1
a
b
c

$ cat file2
1
2
3

$ while read -u3 sys; read -u4 pass; do echo S=$sys P=$pass;done  3<file1 4<file2
S=a P=1
S=b P=2
S=c P=3

Not all shells can do that. But you mention bash above and bash can do that.

wpeckham · 09-27-2016, 09:41 PM

There are interesting tools to automate some part of this process. I transfer keys to my servers so I can ssh without passwords, then us mpssh to generate the data for additional filtering. When using mpssh you have a hosts file ( in ~/.mpssh ) that lists the hosts you will work on, optionally separated into lists using labels.

There are other tools similar to mpssh (dsh, etc) that work on multiple hosts, either in parallel or sequentially).

This is not the kind of thing I would use expect to automate. That said, I can see how it might well work as an exercise used to get someone to LEARN expect! Could this be a teaching/mentoring issue?

ogniemi · 09-28-2016, 09:11 AM

I am not really sure what is your goal but check for pssh utility

bravored · 10-04-2016, 09:39 AM

Hi All
Thanks for the comments

Google searches finally found something that works more to what I want (for now -- {now I need to get it to ready encrypted password})
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#! /usr//bin/expect

set timeout 20
set user [lindex $argv 0]
set password [lindex $argv 1]
set prompt "$ "

;# -- main activity

proc dostuff { currenthost} {

;# do something with currenthost

send -- "ls -lrt\r"
return

}

;# -- start of task

set fd [open ./hostlist r]
set hosts [read -nonewline $fd]
close $fd

foreach host [split $hosts "\n" ] {

spawn /usr/bin/ssh $user@$host

while (1) {
expect {
"no)? " {
send -- "yes\r"

}

"password: " {
send -- "$password\r"

}

"$prompt" {
dostuff { $host }

break
}
}
}

expect "$prompt"
send -- "exit\r"
}

expect eof

Replaced send -- "ls -lrt\r" with send -- "uptime\r" : to get the result I was looking for.

chmod 700 file
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Replace hostlist with ip or ips you want

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Run it as ./file userid password

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Do it at your RISK!

Practice! TEST! Redefine