I am automating the process of:
Connect to a system named "alpha" via ssh with password "alpha" for username "alpha". Once connected I would like to set the root password (to "kickass"). The system I am connecting to doesn't have a root password by default. I wrote this expect script to do the job but it doesn't work consistently. It works once and then if I change the password to test again, it waits at the "Enter new UNIX password:" prompt after issuing "sudo passwd root". Any ideas?
#!/usr/bin/expect -f set arg1 [lindex $argv 0] set force_conservative 1 ;# set to 1 to force conservative mode even if ;# script wasn't run conservatively originally if {$force_conservative} { set send_slow {1 .1} proc send {ignore arg} { sleep .1 exp_send -s -- $arg } } set timeout -1 spawn ssh alpha@$arg1 match_max 100000 expect -exact "password: " send -- "alpha\r" expect -exact "alpha@alpha:~\$ " send -- "sudo passwd root\r" expect -exact "password for alpha: " send -- "alpha\r" expect -exact "new UNIX password: " send -- "kickass\r" expect -exact "Retype new UNIX password: " send -- "kickass\r" expect -exact "alpha@alpha:~\$ " send -- "exit\r" expect eof
Thanks.