I personally see no problem with using Expect for this. I've written a number of Expect scripts to semi-automate doing repetitive things on multiple servers. When you have 200+ servers to deal with and no NIS or LDAP, and strict password expirations on all servers (even for admins, thanks to our auditors...), you tend to find great utility in Expect.

I'm not sure this is what you're asking, but when prompting for password I just use system stty -echo in the expect script, and use send_user to give me any output I need to see.

For the actual ssh session: spawn -noecho ssh $hostname should work nicely.

In reply to Re: scp and ssh without passwd by tempehjunkie
in thread scp and ssh without passwd by perlknight

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