#!/usr/bin/perl # Here we are doing this again only this time we'll do it #without Echoing the password. $RSH='/usr/bin/ssh'; $host_to_login_to=shift(@ARGV); use Expect; print "Enter password: "; # First we have to initialize STDIN in to an expect object. $stdin=Expect->exp_init(\*STDIN); # Now turn off echoing $stdin->exp_stty('-echo'); # The easy way to do this is: #$password=; #chop $password; # The somewhat harder way is to use $stdin->expect. This would look like: # ($match_num,$error,$match,$before,$after)=$stdin->expect(undef,"\r"); $password = $before; # Turn echo back on $stdin->exp_stty('echo'); # print that newline that wasn't echoed print "\n"; $rsh=Expect->spawn($RSH,$host_to_login_to); # Look for a password prompt. $rsh->expect(30,'-re','word:\s$')||(die"Never got password prompt\n"); print $rsh "$password\r"; # Look for a prompt. Prompt can be # $ > or ] followed by a whitespace. $prompt = '[\]\$\>\#]\s$'; # Note the use of -re $rsh->expect(30,'-re',$prompt)||(die "Never got prompt on host\n"); # Start top print $rsh "exec top\r"; # OK, now return control to user. $rsh->interact();