question pn Password!!

vangalli · September 26, 2006, 1:53am

Hi Unix gurus,
I have one question for you on passowrd:

I have one script which takes care of configuring SSH on some 200 servers. But for 200 times it prompts for password and always I enter the same password for all the 200 servers. I want to know if i can store the password in a variable or a file and whenever system prompts for the password then it must take the password value from the variable or file so that I can avoid typing the password. Please help and advice.

Warm Regards,
RK

Yogesh_Sawant · September 26, 2006, 7:21am

Yes, that is possible.

vangalli · September 26, 2006, 11:11pm

could you please give me the syntax for that........... i need it very urgent........

Yogesh_Sawant · September 27, 2006, 4:02am

That depends on how and where you wish to give password. For example, to the passwd command, to ftp, to telnet, to ssh, etc.

You may have to use Expect in some cases.