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[NMLUG] a way to "fake" interaction



On that note, I've been successful with programs that have no -N equivelent,
printing what the program wants to STDIN.

On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 05:09:37PM -0700, Matthew Bohnsack wrote:
> * Jody Harris <havoc@harrisdev.com> [Apr 01, 2004 at 05:00:00PM MST]:
> > Is there a tool I can use to respond to prompts?  I need to generate
> > ssh key files on the fly, but there is no way to tell (at least not
> > that I can find) ssh-keygen to not prompt for passphrase, just accept
> > NULL.
> >
> > If there is a tool that I could have "hit the enter key" for me when
> > prompted, I'd be set.
> 
> You could use expect[1] to do this, but I'd just make ssh-keygen accept
> null pass phrases:
> 
> ssh-keygen -N ""
> 
> [1] http://expect.nist.gov/
> 
> -Matt
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