[sork] Re: expect and passwd

[lody at great2cu.net]

Forgot to mention that for debugging purposes I had to change the option in 
passwd_expect to read from the command line

Quoting lody at great2cu.net:

> The expect script runs now without problems!
> 
> The tip with -d at first did not help, there was no output in the logfile, 
> except when a wrong parameter or command was given.
> 
> Then I inserted a new topline in passwd_expect:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/expect -d
> 
> And then called the script:
> 
> ./passwd_expect <login_name> <old_passwd> <new_passwd>
> 
> With the output sent to the terminal I could debug the required strings to 
> match against.
> 
> So success at last
> 
> You were all a big help.
> 
> Next step will be the synchronisation with samba password, but I think that
> is 
> beyond the scope of this mailing list
> 
> Lody.
> 
> 
> 
> Quoting Eric Rostetter <eric.rostetter at physics.utexas.edu>:
> 
> > Quoting j.huinink at wanadoo.nl:
> > 
> > > I myself had no experience in running expect, but after some browsing
> > through
> > > documentation and man pages I came up with the following patch that
> helped
> > me
> > > debug the expect script.
> > 
> > Sounds good, though I've not yet looked at it.
> >  
> > > Expect creates a log file in your upload_tmp_dir (I think this is in
> your
> > > php.ini) called passwd.log. If you add the -d flag to the expect
> command
> > it
> > > will show all the prompts that expect receives from yout system and the
> > rules
> > > that it tries to match. This should tell you where and why it fails.
> > 
> > Sounds great.
> > 
> > > Note that the passwd.log file will contain plaintext copies of the
> > password
> > > so
> > > you should be very carefull not to test this with sensitive users
> and/or
> > > passwords and to remove the debug info in a production environment.
> > 
> > For this reason, I would not want to make this web-available or otherwise
> > accessible form outside the local system, to answer your question below.
> > 
> > > Eric, I assume that a lot of people who want to use the expect backend
> > will
> > > have similar problems. How would you feel about including something
> along
> > the
> > > lines of the above in the code where the log file is returned in the
> > browser
> > > or something when you are in debuggin mode?
> > 
> > No, too dangerous, as you note above.  But I'm not against it generating
> > the debug file on the local host machine.
> > 
> > Thanks for the code!
> > 
> > > Regards,
> > > Jeroen
> > 
> > -- 
> > Eric Rostetter
> > The Department of Physics
> > The University of Texas at Austin
> > 
> > Why get even? Get odd!
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