Re: [Pyssh-discuss] Automating the entry of the password

[Rasjid W. <ra...@op...>]

For the record, David's solution is exactly what I created the prompt_callback 
parameter for, and is certainly the kind of solution I had in mind.

My appologies to Christian, as I think I simply missed that part his email 
when reading it, and thank you to David for a solution.

Cheers,

Rasjid.

On Friday 02 May 2003 19:16, David Schachter wrote:
> In 
<http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1560324&forum_id=705>, 
Christian Laubscher asked:
> >Another question (I know that this is bad style, but I'd like to do it
> > anyway): can I hand ssh the password as a variable? How?
>
> I did this by passing a different function into Ssh.login(). The function
> is defined like this: def login(self, logintext='Last login:',
> prompt_callback=_prompt)
>
> where _prompt is a helper function to handle the login dialog. I provided
> my own function, myPrompt(), using the _prompt() function as a starting
> point. Here's an example program, run on Microsoft Windows 2000, based on
> Christian's example: import pyssh
> import sys
>
> if len(sys.argv) != 4:
>   print """Usage: example2 <hostname> <username> <password>
>
> Example: example2 fred.acme.com zaphod beeblebrox"""
>   sys.exit(1)
>
> hostG     = sys.argv[1]
> userG     = sys.argv[2]
> passwordG = sys.argv[3]
>
>
> def myPrompt(prompt):
>   """Print the message as the prompt for input. Return the text entered."""
>
>   abort = 0
>
>   lprompt = prompt.lower()
>   if lprompt.find("password:") >= 0 or lprompt.find("passphrase:") >= 0:
> #    print "Found password request in '%s'." % prompt
>     response = passwordG
>
>   else:
>     print "User input required for ssh connection. (Type Ctrl-C to abort
> connection.)" try:
>       response = raw_input(prompt)
>
>     except KeyboardInterrupt:
>       response = ""
>       abort = 1
>
>   return response, abort
>
>
> mycon = pyssh.Ssh(userG, hostG, "22")
> mycon.set_debuglevel(1)
> mycon.set_sshpath("c:/progra~1/putty/plink.exe")
> mycon.login("Last login:", myPrompt)
>
> for command in ("ls", "ps", "ps auxw | grep httpd | grep -v grep ; echo
> $?", "exit"): print "\n%%", command
>   print mycon.sendcmd(command)
> mycon.close()

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Rasjid Wilcox
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