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How to automate ssh login using putty?

Asked by: nosremes

Hi All,

I have something that I would like to automate but don't know how to start it.

I have a list of unix servers in a txt file. What I want is, I would like to create a script that will run putty to login to those servers inside the txt file and execute a sudo script like this ex. /var/testscripts/myscripts.pl then output it to a file if it is successful or not. The username and login can be declare on the script.

Or I would like to create a batch script that will call putty and automatically login to those servers inside the text file. Let say, the text file have 5 servers. The script will open up 5 putty session on those 5 different servers.

Appreciate any sample code related to my queries above. Thanks.

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2009-03-11 at 07:40:06ID24219931
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Answers

 

by: TintinPosted on 2009-03-11 at 14:13:30ID: 23862436

The way I would do it is to install cygwin, so that you have bash and a ssh client, then you can write a simple shell script to do the task, eg:

#!/bin/bash
for host in $(cat /file/with/hosts.txt)
do
  ssh $host "sudo /var/testscripts/myscripts.pl" >output.$host
done
                                              
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by: simon3270Posted on 2009-03-15 at 05:19:19ID: 23890785

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Automation/Q_24219931.html

The bash script is fine if you have set up a keypair between the server you are runing on and all of the remote servers, and that keypair doesn't require a passphrase.

If you need to log in to the remote server, what you need to use is something like "expect" (which should already be on your UNIX box - if not, it should be easy to install it).   It only needs to be on the master server (the one from whcih you are connecting).

In the script with the servers, also have the userid and password for each slave server, and the command you want to run (in case it varies from server to server).  For example:

  server1 user1 password1 command1
  server2 user2 pass2 cmd2

and so on.

Then write an expect script like:
  #!/usr/bin/expect --
  set logindone 0
  set targethost [lindex $argv 0]
  set targetuser [lindex $argv 1]
  set targetpasswd [lindex $argv 2]
  set targetcmd [lindex $argv 3]

  spawn ssh $targetuser\@$targethost
  while 1 {
    # Log in and wait for unix prompt - adjust if your prompt is differnt
    expect {
      "login:" {if $logindone==0 {set logindone 1
                                  send "$targetuser\n"}}
      "sword:" {send "$targetpasswd\r"; set logindone 1}
      "\\$ $" {break}
      "\\# $" {break}
      timeout {send_user "Timed out logging in to $targethost as $targetuser\n"; exit}
    }
  }

  if {[string length $targetcmd] != 0} {
    # Send command
    send $targetcmd\r";
    #  Allow 30 seconds for command to complete
    set timeout 30
    # Wait for unix prompt - adjust if your prompt is differnt
    expect {
      "\\$ " {exit}
      "\\# " {exit}
      timeout {send_user "Timed out waiting for command $targetcmd to run on $targethost as $targetuser\n"; exit}
    }
  }

  # If no command has been entered, become an interactive shell, and exit when the user logs out of that shell
  interact

The expect script logs in to the remote server using Expect, then runs the optional command.  If you don't have a command, the script becomes an interactive shell.  When you finally log out of that shell, the expect script terminates.

Call the expect script from a shell script such as:

  #!/bin/sh
  cat ~/file_with_serverst.txt | while read srvr nam psswd cmd
  do
    expect ~/myssh.exp "$srvr" "$nam" "$psswd" "$cmd" > ${srvr}.out
  done

There may well be more succint ways of running the above shell script, but the above has the benefit of clarity and flexibility.  A very terse version would be:
awk '{print "expect myssh.exp ",$0," > ",$1,".out";}' file_with_servers.txt | sh

You will of course have to adjust any paths specified (if, for example, your "expect" isn't in /usr/bin.

 

by: chiragypatilPosted on 2009-03-26 at 00:05:00ID: 23987869

This is a bit simpler solution.
I am assuming you want to login to, say, five different unix servers from Windows.
You can install Poderosa which, you can say is a  multi tab PUTTY with some extra features.
For the first time just login to all the servers manually and in File Menu save the shortcut as a "server1.gts" "server2.gts" and so on.
You can change its settings to make it work exactly like putty.(example right-click operation is configurable, you can change it to either "paste" or to "open context menu").

Hope this helps!

 

by: RedimidoPosted on 2009-10-31 at 12:27:32ID: 25711159

Sorry I came so late to the question but let me try to give a way this can be solved:

a) use pageant to store your keys, so you log in to all those remote servers without being asked for a user/password
b) add the commands you want executed on each remote server to a file. say c:\mycommands.dat

now create a batch file in c:\mybatfile.bat with
putty.exe -ssh user1@host1 -m c:\mycommands.dat
putty.exe -ssh user2@host2 -m c:\mycommands.dat
putty.exe -ssh user3@host3 -m c:\mycommands.dat
...

if you need to add more command line like the password for each host, it is possible. you can even load the session you want.
for that, you can refer to here:
http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.53/htmldoc/Chapter3.html
http://etherealmind.com/putty-command-line/

hope that helps ;-)

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