No I don't want to write a program that gets the username or password, there is this program there already that runs interactively, which prompts the user fro a username and a password. I was trying to get a way to pass a username and a password from a perl script to this executable. This executable doesn't take any command line options and runs interactively as I have shown above.
I tried doing the following, but it fails for some reason:
open (FIFO, "$program |");
print FIFO "$username\n";
print FIFO "$passwd\n";
print FIFO "$passwd\n";
print FIFO "y\n";
close FIFO || die "error closing redirector \n";
The program looks like the following again.
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username :
password :
confirm :
Do you want the action to be persistent (y/n) :
The code I have above doesnt run well for some reason. I am trying to make it so the user runs the perl script and doesnt see any output by this program, and the perl script enters the username and password for him.
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