{"id":111,"date":"2011-02-18T10:52:06","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T09:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ridgesolutions.ie\/?p=111"},"modified":"2011-02-21T10:07:11","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T09:07:11","slug":"expect-shell-ssh-example","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ridgesolutions.ie\/index.php\/2011\/02\/18\/expect-shell-ssh-example\/","title":{"rendered":"Expect Shell SSH Example"},"content":{"rendered":"

I found this <\/a> nice example of using the Expect Shell to automate an SSH<\/a> connection providing username and password:<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/bash.cyberciti.biz\/security\/expect-ssh-login-script\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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When automating SSH connections it would be better to have authentication keys setup to avoid the necessity of passing a password to a script, but this is not always possible and in these cases the Expect Shell offers a workaround.<\/p>\n

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I need this type of automation functionality as I am currently working on automating some Git<\/a> tasks, so that an application running on the Google App Engine can access Git repositories via a Web API running on a third party system.<\/p>\n

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Git is gaining more and more popularity as a Software Control system within the Software Development community but it turns out that interacting with it from the Google App Engine is far from trivial – but what’s new! ;-)<\/p>\n

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I found this nice example of using the Expect Shell to automate an SSH connection providing username and password:   http:\/\/bash.cyberciti.biz\/security\/expect-ssh-login-script\/   When automating SSH connections it would be better to have authentication keys setup to avoid the necessity of passing a password to a script, but this is not always possible and in these […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[120,119,118,97],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-automation","tag-expect-shell","tag-git","tag-google-app-engine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t