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Anyone knows how to feed password to an application using "getpass()"?

April 16th, 2009 - 11:23 pm ET by robin | Report spam
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I know getpass() reads the password from controlling terminal, but i
want to use a tool to feed the password to the application to support
automation instead of manually key in.

I tried to write password to /dev/tty when the application is waiting
for any input, but failed.

Anyone can help?

BR,
robin
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#1 David Schwartz
April 17th, 2009 - 12:09 am ET | Report spam
On Apr 16, 8:23 pm, robin wrote:
I know getpass() reads the password from controlling terminal, but i
want to use a tool to feed the password to  the application to support
automation instead of manually key in.

I tried to write password to /dev/tty when the application is waiting
for any input, but failed.

Anyone can help?



Either use 'expect' or write your own application to use a pty.

DS
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#2 David Schwartz
April 17th, 2009 - 12:09 am ET | Report spam
On Apr 16, 8:23 pm, robin wrote:
I know getpass() reads the password from controlling terminal, but i
want to use a tool to feed the password to  the application to support
automation instead of manually key in.

I tried to write password to /dev/tty when the application is waiting
for any input, but failed.

Anyone can help?



Either use 'expect' or write your own application to use a pty.

DS
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#3 David Schwartz
April 17th, 2009 - 12:09 am ET | Report spam
On Apr 16, 8:23 pm, robin wrote:
I know getpass() reads the password from controlling terminal, but i
want to use a tool to feed the password to  the application to support
automation instead of manually key in.

I tried to write password to /dev/tty when the application is waiting
for any input, but failed.

Anyone can help?



Either use 'expect' or write your own application to use a pty.

DS
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