I work for a large corporation and there is about 2200 boxes in my environment alone. Since I don't work for the UNIX team I cannot install things on the boxes, because I am just a user. This includes keys for authentication. The password will NOT be stored in the script. I am writing some scripts for my own personal use that I want to be able to go out to say 400 boxes and then run some command. Since I have the same username and password, I plan on writing a script which asks for them once and then stores them, in a variable - only temporarily, for all of the boxes. Expect will work GREAT! Thanks for the help! On 5/24/05, Jima <jima at beer.tclug.org> wrote: > On Tue, 24 May 2005, Munir Nassar wrote: > > not quite exactly what you want, but if you use passphraseless keys it > > should do what you want. that is, ssh without asking for a password. > > Did you read the first paragraph of his email? > > > I am writing a script which will take a password as an arg and need to > > use that password when for sshing around. For various reasons I cannot > > use key based authentication. > > Not that I disagree with you; the "password-in-a-script" concept makes me > uneasy (not that I know of a way to implement it). I'd sooner put my > efforts into remedying whatever prevents key-based auth from being an > option. > > Jima > >