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#1 2007-04-26 10:45 AM

bea
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Re: sftp with expect.h

Hi! :)

I do have following problem and spent already quite a lot of time with it, also searching the internet, but pittily with no result :(

I need to use sftp with automatically passing the password and commands. For this I use expect - at the moment as script called by a c++ program. Now I want to optimize this "work around" using <expect.h> directly in my program.

A filepointer is created correctly using exp_popen, also the pattern match using exp_expectv works correctly. The only thing, which does not work, is writing the password. With fwrite I get the error message "Illegal seek". Somehow I do not find the error / the solution. Some hints or help would be great! :)

Thank you very much in advance!

Bea

And here's an example code of what I am doing:

#include <string>
#include <iostream>
#include <expect.h>

using namespace std;

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
  exp_is_debugging  = 1;
  exp_loguser       = 0;
  exp_timeout       = 10; // timeout in seconds
 	
  // open sftp program
  FILE* fp = exp_popen( "sftp [email protected]" );
  if ( fp == NULL ) return 1;
  
  cout << "Process Id: " << exp_pid << endl;
  
  // "password:" is expected
  struct exp_case expectCase;
    
  expectCase.pattern  = "password:";
  expectCase.re       = NULL;
  expectCase.type     = exp_glob;
  expectCase.value    = 0; // value to be returned upon match 
  
  // get the file descriptor 
  int fd = fileno( fp );
  
  if ( exp_expectv( fd, &expectCase ) != 0 )
  { 
    cerr << expectCase.pattern << " does not match." << endl;
    return 1;
  }
  else
  {
  	cout << expectCase.pattern << " found." << endl;
  	
    char* buffer[] = { "test" };
    
    // enter the password automatically
    fwrite( buffer, sizeof( buffer[0] ), 1, fp );
    perror( "fwrite()" );
  }
  return 0;
}

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#2 2007-04-26 11:19 AM

biologz
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Re: sftp with expect.h

sftp -b <batchfile> [email protected]

gethostbyintuition() is still a dream of mine

                                                 -- quoted from bash

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#3 2007-04-26 12:19 PM

bea
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Re: sftp with expect.h

Hi biologz,

thank you for your answer! :)

Well, the batchfile is working fine. Maybe I did not describe my problem clearly enough:

I need to download files via sftp. This should work automatically. Due to writing the file contents into a database, I wrote a C++ program calling an expect-script (for downloading), parsing the downloaded files and writing to database.
I start the script with a system call. The problem is that I do not know if the script stops e.g. due to connection failure or due to successful download.

I have built a workaround with a "valid"-file to find out if download was successful as well as a watchdog in case sftp does not return. I hoped, that there is a better solution. :-/

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#4 2007-04-26 12:54 PM

biologz
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Re: sftp with expect.h

Well i'm still not sure why you're using a C program for that. I would only use shell script instead of C which is not needed for your problem (at least from what i understand).

Anyway maybe someone will have a better understanding than me or a different point of view.

But really if you have to download a file with SFTP then parse it and update a database, i would write a shell script using expect, then i'll still use shell script for parsing (with a program like awk) and then i'd you mysql to fill in the database.

Lol i realize this answer don't satisfy you so just wait for someone else to answer. The bosses of the forum will arrive soon i think, there are attracted by the smell of new posts like a lion is attracted by fresh meat ;-)


gethostbyintuition() is still a dream of mine

                                                 -- quoted from bash

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#5 2007-04-26 01:17 PM

bea
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Re: sftp with expect.h

I must admit, that I am not that good at shell scripting. I have only done some "easy" ones.

But I will consider your answer, maybe it's really a much better and easier solution. :smile:

Thank's anyway! :)

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#6 2007-04-26 01:26 PM

RobSeace
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Re: sftp with expect.h

char* buffer[] = { "test" };
    
    // enter the password automatically
    fwrite( buffer, sizeof( buffer[0] ), 1, fp );
    perror( "fwrite()" );

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#7 2007-04-26 03:06 PM

bea
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Registered: 2007-04-26
Posts: 5

Re: sftp with expect.h

Hi RobSeace,

I did not know libcurl before. It seems that only the newest version libcurl4 supports sftp, which is still experimental. But it seems worth to try :)

Concerning the expect - version:
Thanks for the hint with the perror - it was a copy-paste-thing to this test file :-/

Pittily the match does not work with

...
if ( exp_fexpectv( fp, &expectCase ) != 0 ) ...

It's crashing with a Segmentation fault. Maybe I miss something important :confused:

Thank you for your help!

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#8 2007-04-26 09:39 PM

RobSeace
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Re: sftp with expect.h

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#9 2007-04-27 09:56 AM

bea
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Re: sftp with expect.h

Thank you very much!!! Everything is working fine now! Great! :)

Have a nice weekend! :wink:

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#10 2008-01-21 02:34 PM

gauravtiwari
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Registered: 2008-01-21
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Re: sftp with expect.h

I am trying to use libcurl to write a c code which does a sftp in batch mode but with password authentication, is there any way i can pass password on my own without asking it from user and also can someone please throw some light on how to use curl_easy_setopt() function to use it for my case.

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#11 2008-01-21 08:07 PM

RobSeace
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Re: sftp with expect.h

I think you could either set the username and password right in the URL using
standard syntax (eg: "sftp://user:[email protected]/"), or via CURLOPT_USERPWD...
So, eg:

curl_easy_setopt (curlhandle, CURLOPT_URL, "sftp://user:[email protected]/");
/* ...or... */
curl_easy_setopt (curlhandle, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "user:Pass");

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#12 2008-01-22 09:02 AM

gauravtiwari
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Re: sftp with expect.h

Thanks for the reply. I am not sure that whether sftp supports this sort password specifying in URL it self. I will try the other one. thanks again.

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#13 2012-11-17 05:39 PM

omirp
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