Things you should never do: Use Expect to autotype SSH passwords in scripts

Wed, 26 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Before I moved to Finland, I spent some time in the Hobbesian war of all against all that is Wisconsin¹. Men were men back in that less civilized age, and “cybersecurity” a ninny-word dreamt up by social harmony types who honestly thought they had anything worth stealing in their servers. For those of us doing real work, which I must emphasize you should never do, we had Expect. And to SSH automatically into servers where we didn’t have fancy accoutrements like “keys” or “audit requirements”, we did stuff like

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Things you should never do: Use Expect to autotype SSH passwords in scripts