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Hi,

A certain program asks for password. I need to enter 'newline at this
prompt'. How can I automate this? I tried
echo | program
but it doesn't work. Apparently, password isn't read from stdin, but maybe
from some other stream. What else can I try instead of echo | program?

Thanks

Wroot

Here is a sketchy possible strategy:

There is a perl library for telneting and
reading and writing to/from a remote site
and doing complex key stroke responses.
There are probably other programs that do
telnet scripts.  Maybe you can use them to
log into your own PC and excute the program
and get replies.  I'm not sure if that
does or doesn't overcome the stdin limitation.
But, it is a germ of an idea.

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Quote:

> A certain program asks for password. I need to enter 'newline at this
> prompt'. How can I automate this? I tried
> echo | program

Expect. What language are you using for automation? Expect is most closely
ties to Tcl, but i believe there are perl and python bindings, as well as a
C library and API.

Maybe get hold of the source and chop out the bit that asks for the new
line? Dunno, depends what it is and what it is doing.
Jon

Quote:> Hi,
> A certain program asks for password. I need to enter 'newline at this
> prompt'. How can I automate this? I tried

getpass() is the usual function for this; it doesn't use ncurses.

Quote:> echo | program
> but it doesn't work. Apparently, password isn't read from stdin, but maybe
> from some other stream. What else can I try instead of echo | program?

the manpage says it opens /dev/tty

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