From: Victor Reyes <victor.reyes@...>
Date: 2007-07-24T02:08:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Using expect.rb to change a user's password in UNIX

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The servers where I need to do this is AIX.
We use one AIX server as the controlling server from which we sent a
distributed request to execute certain script everywhere.
The script, which exists on each server, executes as requested.

Thank you

Victor

On 7/23/07, Bob Hutchison <hutch@recursive.ca> wrote:
>
> 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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