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Tuesday July 09, 2002
10:17 AM
Great Expect-ations
I've gotten a few more emails about Net::SCP::Expect. A couple of bug reports. One is a simple parsing error (which most people will probably never hit), the other is password-less ssh/scp.
Since I never expected people to use the module who had password-less ssh set up (I mean, the *whole point* of the module is to send a password via Expect), I never accounted for that possibility. However, someone has pointed out that he's in a loop and some machines require passwords and some don't. Since that's probably going to be a fairly common scenario, I'll need to deal with it now.
Ben Trott, save me!!!
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There's an easy way, and a really easy way (Score:2)
Since that's probably going to be a fairly common scenario, I'll need to deal with it now.
No you don't, just learn from history: "No patch? Oh, well. Take care." :)
Seriously, if you decide you want to tackle it, I don't think it will be too hard. Expect with undef timeout, if you get eof, the command completed without asking for a password, if you get a password prompt, send the password and then expect for eof. Don't forget to omit any steps you might previously have taken to insist that the
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