I want to write a shell script where user interaction is not allowed and I want to use sftp login with in the script. Now I have few challenges to execute this approach.
There is no user interaction so I can only provide the options as a argument while executing the script. Script can be like this.
#!/bin/bash
if [[ "${#}" -lt 4 ]]; then
echo -e "Usage: ${0} <sftpUser> <sftpPassword> <sftpHost> <sftpPort>"
exit 1
fi
sftpUser=${1}
sftpPassword=${2}
sftpHost=${3}
sftpPort=${4}
remote_dir="/home/vagrant"
source_dir="/home/vagrant/sftpDir"
sftpFile="/tmp/tempfile"
echo "cd ${remote_dir}" >> ${sftpFile}
echo "mget * ${source_dir}" >> ${sftpFile}
echo "quit" >> ${sftpFile}
expect -c "
spawn sftp -P ${sftpPort} -o "BatchMode=no" -b "${sftpFile}" ${sftpUser}#${sftpHost}
expect -nocase \"*Password:\" { send \"${sftpPassword}\r\"; interact }
"
rm -rf ${sftpFile}
$ ./shellscript.sh user1 password#123 192.168.0.1 22
Here, we need to provide the argument with the script itself and here we are using the plain text format for password password#123
How can we use the encrypted password in the argument as this can be a risk to expose the password?
Is there any other approach to execute this scenario?
I am not able to find any approach to pass the encrypted password with SFTP login.
I'm trying to use expect in a Bash script to provide the SSH password. Providing the password works, but I don't end up in the SSH session as I should. It goes back strait to Bash.
My script:
#!/bin/bash
read -s PWD
/usr/bin/expect <<EOD
spawn ssh -oStrictHostKeyChecking=no -oCheckHostIP=no usr#$myhost.example.com'
expect "password"
send "$PWD\n"
EOD
echo "you're out"
The output of my script:
spawn ssh -oStrictHostKeyChecking=no -oCheckHostIP=no usr#$myhost.example.com
usr#$myhost.example.com's password: you're out
I would like to have my SSH session and, only when I exit it, to go back to my Bash script.
The reason why I am using Bash before expect is because I have to use a menu. I can choose which unit/device to connect to.
To those who want to reply that I should use SSH keys, please abstain.
Mixing Bash and Expect is not a good way to achieve the desired effect. I'd try to use only Expect:
#!/usr/bin/expect
eval spawn ssh -oStrictHostKeyChecking=no -oCheckHostIP=no usr#$myhost.example.com
# Use the correct prompt
set prompt ":|#|\\\$"
interact -o -nobuffer -re $prompt return
send "my_password\r"
interact -o -nobuffer -re $prompt return
send "my_command1\r"
interact -o -nobuffer -re $prompt return
send "my_command2\r"
interact
Sample solution for bash could be:
#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/expect -c 'expect "\n" { eval spawn ssh -oStrictHostKeyChecking=no -oCheckHostIP=no usr#$myhost.example.com; interact }'
This will wait for Enter and then return to (for a moment) the interactive session.
The easiest way is to use sshpass. This is available in Ubuntu/Debian repositories and you don't have to deal with integrating expect with Bash.
An example:
sshpass -p<password> ssh <arguments>
sshpass -ptest1324 ssh user#192.168.1.200 ls -l /tmp
The above command can be easily integrated with a Bash script.
Note: Please read the Security Considerations section in man sshpass for a full understanding of the security implications.
Add the 'interact' Expect command just before your EOD:
#!/bin/bash
read -s PWD
/usr/bin/expect <<EOD
spawn ssh -oStrictHostKeyChecking=no -oCheckHostIP=no usr#$myhost.example.com
expect "password"
send -- "$PWD\r"
interact
EOD
echo "you're out"
This should let you interact with the remote machine until you log out. Then you'll be back in Bash.
After looking for an answer for the question for months, I finally find a really best solution: writing a simple script.
#!/usr/bin/expect
set timeout 20
set cmd [lrange $argv 1 end]
set password [lindex $argv 0]
eval spawn $cmd
expect "assword:" # matches both 'Password' and 'password'
send -- "$password\r"; # -- for passwords starting with -, see https://stackoverflow.com/a/21280372/4575793
interact
Put it to /usr/bin/exp, then you can use:
exp <password> ssh <anything>
exp <password> scp <anysrc> <anydst>
Done!
A simple Expect script:
File Remotelogin.exp
#!/usr/bin/expect
set user [lindex $argv 1]
set ip [lindex $argv 0]
set password [lindex $argv 2]
spawn ssh $user#$ip
expect "password"
send "$password\r"
interact
Example:
./Remotelogin.exp <ip> <user name> <password>
Also make sure to use
send -- "$PWD\r"
instead, as passwords starting with a dash (-) will fail otherwise.
The above won't interpret a string starting with a dash as an option to the send command.
Use the helper tool fd0ssh (from hxtools, source for ubuntu, source for openSUSE, not pmt). It works without having to expect a particular prompt from the ssh program.
It is also "much safer than passing the password on the command line as sshpass does" ( - comment by Charles Duffy).
Another way that I found useful to use a small Expect script from a Bash script is as follows.
...
Bash script start
Bash commands
...
expect - <<EOF
spawn your-command-here
expect "some-pattern"
send "some-command"
...
...
EOF
...
More Bash commands
...
This works because ...If the string "-" is supplied as a filename, standard input is read instead...
sshpass is broken if you try to use it inside a Sublime Text build target, inside a Makefile. Instead of sshpass, you can use passh
With sshpass you would do:
sshpass -p pa$$word ssh user#host
With passh you would do:
passh -p pa$$word ssh user#host
Note: Do not forget to use -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no. Otherwise, the connection will hang on the first time you use it. For example:
passh -p pa$$word ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no user#host
References:
Send command for password doesn't work using Expect script in SSH connection
How can I disable strict host key checking in ssh?
How to disable SSH host key checking
scp without known_hosts check
pam_mount and sshfs with password authentication
I have the following script:
#!/bin/bash
echo -n "Enter user name: "
read USER
echo -n "Enter password: "
read -s PWD
cat $HOME/etc/switches.txt | while read IP SWITCH
do
echo ${SWITCH}
/usr/bin/expect <<EOD
# Change to 1 to Log to STDOUT
log_user 1
# Change to 1 to enable verbose debugging
exp_internal 1
# Set timeout for the script
set timeout 20
spawn ssh -l {$USER} -oCheckHostIP=no -oStrictHostKeyChecking=no -q $IP
match_max [expr 32 * 1024]
expect "Password:"
send $PWD
send "\n"
expect "#"
send "show fcip summary | grep TRNK\n"
EOD
echo
done
When I run it, the backslash in the username disappears, giving these result:
Enter user name: corp\user
Enter password:
=== ss3303-m-esannw-m01a ===
spawn ssh -l corpuser -oCheckHostIP=no -oStrictHostKeyChecking=no -q 10.247.184.70
[...]
I suspect my problem is due in part to embedding my expect script inside a bash script. I've tried using $USER and "$USER" as well, with the same results. Using corp\\\\user (yes, four backslashes!) does work but is inconvenient. I'm seriously considering using sed or something to multiply the backslashes, but would love to hear other ideas.
You might have better luck passing the variables through the environment so expect can access them directly, instead of relying on the shell to substitute the values into the heredoc:
#!/bin/bash
read -p "Enter user name: " USER
read -sp "Enter password: " PWD
export USER PWD IP
while read IP SWITCH
do
echo ${SWITCH}
# the heredoc is single quoted below
/usr/bin/expect <<'EOD'
# Change to 1 to Log to STDOUT
log_user 1
# Change to 1 to enable verbose debugging
exp_internal 1
# Set timeout for the script
set timeout 20
match_max [expr {32 * 1024}]
spawn ssh -l $env(USER) -oCheckHostIP=no -oStrictHostKeyChecking=no -q $env(IP)
expect "Password:"
send -- "$env(PWD)\r"
expect "#"
send "show fcip summary | grep TRNK\r"
expect eof
EOD
echo
done <$HOME/etc/switches.txt
Notes:
the heredoc is single-quoted: the shell will not try to interpolate variables
exported the shell variables used in the expect code
use \r to "press enter" for the send command.
tidied up the input of the username and password
tidied up reading the text file
Currently I am running this script to print directories on a remote box but I am not sure this code is working.
#!/bin/bash
PWD="test123"
ip="10.9.8.38"
user=$1
/usr/bin/expect <<EOD
spawn ssh -oStrictHostKeyChecking=no -oCheckHostIP=no $user#$ip df -h
expect "*assword:"
send "$PWD\n"
interact
EOD
expect spawns a new sub-shell, hence your local bash variables lose their scope, one way to achieve this is to export your variables to make it available for the sub-shell. Use the Tcl env built-in to import such variables in your script.
#!/bin/bash
export pwdir="test123"
export ip="10.9.8.38"
export user=$1
/usr/bin/expect <<EOD
spawn ssh -oStrictHostKeyChecking=no -oCheckHostIP=no "$env(user)"#"$env(ip)" df -h
expect "*assword:"
send "$env(pwdir)\n"
interact
EOD
(Or) If you are not interested in using an expect script directly with a #!/usr/bin/expect she-bang, you can do something like
#!/usr/bin/expect
set pwdir [lindex $argv 0];
set ip [lindex $argv 1];
set user [lindex $argv 2];
spawn ssh -oStrictHostKeyChecking=no -oCheckHostIP=no $user#$ip df -h
expect "*assword:"
send "$pwdir\n"
interact
and run the script as
./script.exp "test123" "10.9.8.38" "johndoe"
So far I have been able to create a small script using ssh combined with expect to pass a single command through to the dd-wrt router that I am working with. Now that this has been accomplished I wish to pass the same command several times through the ssh log-in instead of just one from a text file, if it is possible.
The other way to accomplish this would be to create a loop and pass the command over, and over again. I would have to use a variable though because the data for the command in the text file changes.
Here is what I have so far
#!/bin/expect -f
set password password
spawn ssh -l root x.x.x.x -p "command"
expect "*password:*"
send -- "$password\r"
send -- "\r"
From what I can see creating a loop would be the easiest way, but I may be wrong. NOTE that the "command & variables" that I want to pass through are in a separate text file, and that it needs to read/take each line and insert each one into the loop. Unless there is a way to send them through all at once.
#!/bin/expect -f
set password password
spawn ssh -l root x.x.x.x -p "command Variable" <-- Command to be passed through
expect "*password:*"
send -- "$password\r"
send -- "\r"
It is the same command every time in the text file, only the variable changes.
test.txt
command xxxxxxx
command xxxxxxx
command xxxxxxx
command xxxxxxx
Thank-you
I think you should do something like this.
start.sh
#!/bin/bash
password="your_password"
cat test.txt|while read line
do
for i in $line
do
ssh.exp $i $password
done
done
ssh.exp
#!/usr/bin/expect
set command [lrange $argv 0 0]
set password [lrange $argv 1 1]
spawn ssh -l root x.x.x.x -p "$command"
expect "*password:*"
send -- "$password\r"
send -- "\r"
And test.txt with list of your commands. Each on the different line.