Quoting MHR <mhullrich at gmail.com>: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 5:03 AM, Barry Brimer <lists at brimer.org> wrote: > > > > Use autoexpect. It will write the expect script for you. I can't think of > > any reason why this wouldn't work. > > > > It probably will, but there are severe security issues with this sort > (plain text passwords) of approach. I try to avoid those like the > plague they can turn out to be, usually when you least expect or need > it. There are no doubt severe security issues with this method, but the OP stated that key-authenticated sessions were not permissible. He would be better off encouraging the powers that be to allow key-authenticated session.