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Re: Using expect.rb to change a user's password in UNIX

Bob Hutchison

7/23/2007 12:09:00 PM

Hi,

On 22-Jul-07, at 8:15 PM, Victor Reyes wrote:

> Hello World,
>
> Today, I used a Korn Shell script and the UNIX version of expect to
> change a
> user password remotely.
> I would like to use the ruby.rb library to do the same.
> For instance, when you type, in UNIX,
>
> passwd username
> It comes back asking to enter the PW.
> Once you enter it, it comes back asking you to enter it again.
>
> How do I do this using the ruby expect.rb library?
>

I don't know. I had to do something similar for scripting rsync over
ssh, and just used the unix version of expect (using popen4 and a
bash script I generated in Ruby). Very ugly, but expect usually is :-)

Cheers,
Bob

> We use this to change a userid on multiple systems at the same time.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Victor

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