Posts Tagged by Expect

A script I wrote – rsyncp. It allows you to provide a password to rsync over ssh, when you’re unable to use ssh key-based authentication:

% cat ~/bin/rsyncp
#!/usr/bin/expect
eval spawn rsync $argv
expect  "*?assword:" { send "secretstuffr"}
expect eof

You can then use rsyncp in another script, like this:

for h in foo bar ; do
  rsyncp -av --progress srcdir/ $h:dstdir/
done

And before you add a comment saying use ssh keys or keychain, this is totally insecure, I agree with you! Key based authentication is disabled on the target server, and I’m still trying to resolve the politics around this at my current company, and sshpass seems broken <sigh>