Re: Calling an executable and entering login credentials

I don't know exactly how Sametime expects to get it's login, can you be more specific what the program does? Does it output a prompt, like Login:? Usually to interact with a program, the Expect module is usually recommended, google for perl Expect for sample code.

In a very simple situation, you may be able to get by with IPC::Open3, which opens the program, and gives you pipes to write to, and read from, the executable.

A simple example:

#!/usr/bin/perl 
use warnings;
use strict;
use IPC::Open3;

$|=1;

# you would run Sametime here, instead of bash
my $pid=open3(\*IN,\*OUT, \*ERR , '/bin/bash');

# set \*ERR to 0 to send STDERR to STDOUT
#  

# in your case, print the login name here
my $cmd = 'date';

#send cmd to bash
print IN "$cmd\n";

my $result = <OUT>;
print $result;
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Re^2: Calling an executable and entering login credentials by Thomas Kennll (Acolyte) on Sep 02, 2012 at 17:34 UTC
Thanks for the reply! Actually the application is a .bat file and when I run this manually a login/password prompt pops up.. I need to put in the username and password and then submit it.. Something like a form program.. I want my perl script to interact to this .bat file and put in the credential and submit..	[reply]
Re^3: Calling an executable and entering login credentials by Mr. Muskrat (Canon) on Sep 02, 2012 at 19:49 UTC
To interact with GUI programs on Windows, you should check out Win32::GUITest and its excellent examples.	[reply]
Re^3: Calling an executable and entering login credentials by afoken (Chancellor) on Sep 02, 2012 at 17:57 UTC
Batch files don't ask for passwords. Programs invoked by the batch files do that. Look at the batch file, find out which program asks for a password, read its documentation and find a way to pass the password on the command line. Or look at tools like AutoIt that are written to interact with GUIs. Alexander -- Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)	[reply]
Re^4: Calling an executable and entering login credentials by Thomas Kennll (Acolyte) on Sep 02, 2012 at 18:38 UTC
Yeah.. There are some java programs doing that.. Is there anyway, that I can call the batch files from the script and then input the credentials using some modules ?	[reply]
Re^5: Calling an executable and entering login credentials by aitap (Curate) on Sep 02, 2012 at 20:14 UTC