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To: <secureshell@securityfocus.com>, "Joseph Vaughn" <vaughn@chemmail.chem.fsu.edu>
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 08:13:42 +0530

There is one way we are using to logon to the devices through script for
automization of backup. Where we have written a script which run's on Linux
e.g.:

spawn ssh X.X.X.X

expect "*login:*"
send "admin\r"
expect "password:"
send "Pre$!denT\r"
expect "*->*"
send "(the command which you want to execute)\r"
expect "*(the result line which you expect)*"
send "exit\r"

and so on.
In front of username we have hardcoded the username and infront of password
we supply the hardcoded passwords.

I think (not sure) that you can use this for sftp too in place of ssh in
above lines.

Sincerely,
D. N. Vaidya ( //)) //\\// \\// )

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph Vaughn" <vaughn@chemmail.chem.fsu.edu>
To: <secureshell@securityfocus.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 1:13 AM
Subject: sftp question

> Hello
>
> I hope someone can help me with the following problem.
>
>
>
>
> Background: We are using SUN hosts running Solaris9. For more than
> 15 years we have had our users launch a Cshell script to create a tar
> file. It also does ftp data transfer in the background for
> archiving on remote Macintosh computers. The users just type the
> name of the script on the command line and then he/she enters a file
> name. The process uses .netrc which contains the remote password.
> Permissions are set so that the users cannot read the contents of
> .netrc.
> So, the user does not know the password on the archiving host. Of
> course ftp has huge security problems. So, I am trying to create a
> similar process using sftp. I have tried to do this using SUN's
> Solaris9 ssh-keygen, ssh-agent, ssh-add, etc. I have tried
> "passwordless" sftp setups I have found on websites. This
> description is improper. They don't require your normal password,
> but they do require a new "passphrase" (ie a new password).
>
>
> My question: Help?! Can you tell me how to get Solaris9's version
> of sftp/ssh to work in such a fashion as I described above. That
> is, sftp launched with a Cshell script and have the
> password/passphrase entered in the background perhaps by another
> shell script, which is called by the first one.
>
>
> Regards.
>
>
> Joseph Vaughn
> --
> Dr. Joseph Vaughn
> NMR Facility Associate Director
> Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
> Florida State University
> Tallahassee, FL 32306-4390
>
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