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Correct way to set PS1 prompt over ssh
I am trying to set the PS1 prompt dynamically on the my remote machine. The idea is that when I will do ssh to the remote machine, I will also send the value which will set as a prompt for that remote ...
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Prevent expect from hanging when running through ssh
Based on another post's answer, i managed to make expect automate vncserver through ssh (optionally on a chroot in this case), like so:
ssh user@ip "rm ~/.vnc/passwd"
echo -n "`PASS_VNC`...
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Is it possible to carry local RSA keys to remote computer (live) and use securely?
Is it possible to store an SSH-id in some sort of session (like expect or ssh) that is running on the local machine, swing into a remote box, and execute a shell command in the remote box as if the ...
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I need to ssh into another machine using expect and a password and start a program there, then start a program on my local machine. How can I do this?
As said in the title, I am writing a script that should run on Computer A. Computer A should ssh on Computer B, run Program B, then exit the ssh session (Program B still running on Computer B) and ...
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Remove carriage return (\r) from variable in expect script
Setup
Ubuntu 16.04
expect Scripts
In the simple script bellow the goal is to simply find the oldest .zip file in a directory on a remote machine using ssh.
Then use scp to download this file to the ...
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expect not taking ssh arguments in while/for loop
I'm trying to fetch remote machine details (dmidecode) for many hosts using some expect command.
Below is the expect script which I'm using for this purpose.
while read i; do
{
/usr/bin/expect<&...
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How can I update my PATH in using expect in a bash script? [closed]
I'm connecting to my university server using ssh. But, every time I log in I have to update my R PATH. So, I would like to automatize it, I have this script so far:
#!/usr/bin/expect -f
spawn ssh ...
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script ssh login to server and pass root password
I have written an expect script to automate the login process for ssh. My user account has rsa keys setup but once I log in I want to switch to root but the remote server is hanging on the password. I ...
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How to use expect in Bash script and ssh-copy-id
From a bash script:
source ./expect.sh
I am including a expect code:
#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/expect <<EOL
spawn ssh-copy-id -i /home/user/.ssh/id_rsa.pub 111.111.111
expect '*?assword*'
send '...
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expect: does "" (spawn_id exp70) match glob pattern
I have written an expect script that works perfect for testing passwords on our network until it has looped through my list quite a bit, then the debug output shows that there is nothing to match.
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SSH Command behaves differently in Expect Script
I'm using this command on Server1
~# ssh root@Server2 /root/.ssh/id_rsa.pub >> /root/.ssh/authorized_keys
to append the contents of Server2's id_rsa.pub to the authorized_keys of Server1.
It ...
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Bash script calls expect script with master SSH connection
I'm trying to write a bash script that calls an expect script to establish a master SSH connection to be used for the remaining SSH commands in the bash script.
~/.ssh/config:
ControlMaster auto
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How to automate connecting to multiple network devices, running a command and saving the output to a file?
I have to run a command on around 1000 network devices and save the output to a file. In a file I have a list of all the network device names that have to be connected to using SSH. I then have to run ...
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SSH + Sudo + Expect in Bash script: Run command with sudo in remote machine
I am trying to automate the deploy of some .deb packages with an script. I want to execute sudo dpkg -i $myDeb.deb in a list of remote machines I can access with ssh.
I've tried to automate the ...
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