Been trying to get a password reset script working with expect and ran across a problem if I have a $ in the entered password it wraps the variable in {}'s. Not sure if I'm missing an option somewhere or doing something wrong. Newest version of cygwin available. I have tried wrapping with "'s and using \$ and \\$ and neither made a difference. I have confirmed that it is passing "{password1$}" as a full string as my password was changed to that with my initial testing.
Thanks, Brian $ ./passexpect_reset.sh ipaddress username password1$ password2 spawn ssh -l username ipaddress -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no {password1$} password2 parent: waiting for sync byte parent: telling child to go ahead parent: now unsynchronized from child spawn: returns {6516} ============================== ====== passexpect_reset.sh: #!/usr/bin/expect -f exp_internal 1 set ipaddr [lrange $argv 0 0] set username [lrange $argv 1 1] set oldpassword [lrange $argv 2 2] set newpassword [lrange $argv 3 3] set timeout -1 # now connect to remote UNIX box (ipaddr) with given script to execute spawn ssh -l $username $ipaddr -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no $oldpassword $newpassword match_max 100000 # Look for passwod prompt expect "*?assword:*" send -- "$oldpassword\r" # Look for shell expect "*$username*" send -- "passwd\r" # Look for passwod prompt expect "*?assword:*" send -- "$oldpassword\r" # Look for passwod prompt expect "*?assword:*" send -- "$newpassword\r" # Look for passwod prompt expect "*?assword:*" send -- "$newpassword\r" # send blank line (\r) to make sure we get back to gui send -- "exit\r" expect eof ==================================== -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple