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How to get a password from a shell script?
For anyone needing to prompt for a password, you may be interested in using encpass.sh. This is a script I wrote for similar purposes of capturing a secret at runtime and then encrypting it for subsequent occasions.
Where do I Find my Password in Bash?
Subsequent runs do not prompt for the password as it will just use the encrypted value from disk. It stores the encrypted passwords in a hidden folder under the user’s home directory or in a custom folder that you can define through the environment variable ENCPASS_HOME_DIR.
How to invoke a command in a shell?
To invoke a command, pass it as an argument to encpass.sh from the shell. $ encpass.sh [COMMAND] See the COMMANDS section below for a list of available commands. Wildcard handling is implemented for secret and bucket names.
What does the dialog box in Linux do?
The ” –args ” option tells dialog to list the command-line parameters to the standard error. This is useful when debugging complex scripts using the ” — ” and ” –file “, since the command-line may be rewritten as these are expanded.
Can you put more than one dialog box in a script?
You can put more than one dialog box into a script: Use the ” –and-widget ” token to force dialog to proceed to the next dialog unless you have pressed ESC to cancel, or Simply add the tokens for the next dialog box, making a chain. Dialog stops chaining when the return code from a dialog is nonzero, e.g., Cancel or No (see DIAGNOSTICS).
Why is the read secret function empty in Bash?
The input to read_secret appears empty because it was not echoed to the terminal. Here is another that uses the -r option to preserve the backslashes in the input. This works because the read_secret function defined above passes all arguments it receives to the read command.
What kind of prompt is being generated in PowerShell?
You don’t say what application and/or what kind of password prompt (GUI or console) is being generated. Not enough information to answer. In my powershell script it will execute an application which will prompt a query such as “type password”. I want to add the script to answer (feed the input) on this prompt in the script.
Is there a way to prompt for password in PowerShell?
Alternatively, you can write your application such that it reads the password as a command-line argument. (Suggestion: Add logic such that if the password parameter is missing from the command line, then prompt for it.) I tried either ones above but it does not work: still prompt the query.
How to run a script to answer prompts?
to run the script simply be in the directory you want and run ‘sh autocomplete.sh’ in terminal. In short by using << EOL & EOF in combination with Return Lines you can answer each question of the prompt as necessary. Each new line is a new answer.