Re: Capturing expect session

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John McKee wrote:
> Finally, went to QSH and attempted to run sftp manually.  Not going to work
> there, I know.  

If you're going to try it manually, why not use a real terminal instead 
of QSH or QP2TERM?  that way you CAN do the interactive part manually... 
 it's really not that hard.

> But, I finally did get a semi-intelligent response from their end,
> for a change.  Some complaint about validation.  I am assuming that
> goes back to the terminal session being unknown to sftp, because I
> can log in using Cygwin on my pc just fine.  I did that to make sure
> I was not missing something in the expect script.

So...  try it interactively on i instead of from Cygwin.  Surely that'll 
give you more useful information?  This is what you have to do:

STRQSH CMD('/qopensys/usr/sbin/sshd')

And then run PuTTY on your PC, and connect to the sshd you just started. 
 Presto!  Like magic, you have a real Unix terminal connected to your 
i, and you're able to use sftp & friends interactively.

> As I understand it, I only need to put a series of characters to look
> for, so that password: is sufficient, rather than needing to put the
> entire prompt, which is blah_blah_blah@xxxxxxxxxxx's password:.

Indeed, I typically expect "word:"  Soemtimes people will capitalize 
Password: instead of password: so I don't like to search for the whole 
thing, just the end.  (I suppose you could wait for "assword:" it sounds 
sounds funny...)


> I would like to use scp. Loads simpler. Not sure if their site allows
> it. Wouldn't scp still require an expect script to supply a password?
> I see an option to run in batch to suppress the password prompt. But,
> they insist on username/password authentication.>

I'm not familiar with every SSH server in the world...  but OpenSSH 
(which is the one I run servers with) doesn't have a way of enabling 
SFTP without SCP.  Indeed, it's tricky to enable SFTP/SCP without also 
enabling SSH itself.

I really feel bad for you.  This should be SOOOO simple... I feel bad 
that you're having such a hard time with it...  I've never had anything 
close to the number of problems you're having.