Re: how to kinit without entering password from keyboard?

[Diana Eichert <deichert@wrench.com>]

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Sujeevan Rasaratnam wrote:

> Is it posible to pass the password in the command line (not from a 
> keyboard). I'm making a perl script, it should call the "system" 
> function to execute the command to authenticate a principal. I tried 
> "echo my_passsword | kinit -f my_principal" and "kinit -f my_principal < 
> my_password_in_a_file.txt", they dont work.
> heimdal 0.4e
> redhat9 (x86)
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -- 
> Sujeevan Rasaratnam
> Alcatel Canada - R&I - Security group


Well, besides the security issues of embedding a password in a script, if
you're stuck on Perl try the Expect.pm module.
http://search.cpan.org/~rgiersig/Expect-1.15/