Mauro Stettler wrote: > hi together Hello,
> im writing a perlscript which should be able to create a cryptoloop > onto a device. the console command to do this is losetup /dev/loo0 > /dev/sdb1 -e twofish-256, then i am asked for a password... the > problem is, this password is requested by the function getpass(), i > don't know how i can enter it from a perl script. > > it seems to only listen to the keyboard, how can i enter the password > from a script? That is a security feature that requires the program input/output be connected to a TTY (terminal). To do what you want from perl you have to connect the program to a pseudo TTY. perldoc Expect John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
