[ale] scripting passwd change

[jknapka at earthlink.net (Joe Knapka)]

You are absolutely right. Apologies; I must proofread
my email more carefully.

-- Joe

Michelangelo Grigni wrote:
> 
> pynk wrote:
> > On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Joe Knapka wrote:
> > > #!/usr/bin/expect
> > > spawn passwd
> > > expect "ssword:"
> > > send [lindex $argv 0]
> > > expect "ssword:"
> > > send [lindex $argv 1]
> > > expect "ssword:"
> > > send [lindex $argv 1]
> > > expect eof
> >
> > I can't get this to work for some reason....
> > $ ./cpasswd.tcl
> > spawn passwd
> > Changing password for pynk
> > (current) UNIX password:
> >
> > ...and then it sits there and looks at me until it finally times out.
> 
> That script is not sending the \r (return key) at the end
> of each password.  Something like this should help:
> 
> expect "ssword:"
> send [lindex $argv 0]\r
> expect "ssword:"
> send [lindex $argv 1]\r
> expect "ssword:"
> send [lindex $argv 1]\r
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In any formula, constants (especially those obtained from handbooks)
are to be treated as variables.

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