Re: SSH keys - was: Re: expect - sometimes it runs sometimes it doesn't....

I had seemingly weird connection issues as well. One cause was a failed
signon that got the remote site locked up. After some discussion, the
cause was determined. That stupid site had a single shared login
sequence. Just was not worth it to them to make seprate logins. But, they
finally did. They were relying on a client id as a data field. That was
why I suggested standard error.

John McKee

On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 4:08 PM, DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Have you talked to this vendor? You seriously have no idea. :-) :-) We're
lucky they got this far!!

To directly answer your question, they don't support key exchange. UerrID
and password only.

The odd part is that it either works flawlessly or appears not to even
make an attempt.

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

www.Frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com - Personal Development IBM i timeshare service.
www.iInTheCloud.com - Commercial IBM i Cloud Hosting.

On 9/7/2016 5:05 PM, Kevin Adler wrote:

Not to sidetrack the conversation, but is there a reason you're not using
SSH keys and public-key authentication? Then you don't need to get
prompted for a password and don't need expect whatsoever.


"MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 09/07/2016
02:58:32 PM:

From: DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 09/07/2016 02:59 PM
Subject: expect - sometimes it runs sometimes it doesn't....
Sent by: "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

I am utilizing expect on several different servers. On one of them we
need to sftp two small files up to a service periodically through the
day. When I run the shell script in QSH it will run perfectly. Then I
run it again and it does absolutely nothing. It may be many minutes
before it will run again. Signing off and back on doesn't consistently
fix it either. When submitted to batch it's the same, it may run and may

not.

I am redirecting standard output to a log file (> 'output.log') and when

it runs correctly everything is in it. When it does not run the file is

correctly time stamped but is empty (0 bytes). Even when it's not
logging it may fail, in that case if it's interactive QSH simply returns

to the '$' prompt.

IBM i 7.1 with reasonably current PTFs and the latest version of expect
from ScottKlement.com.

Thoughts??


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