The natural solution seems to be to have optional command line -user and -password
options for saceclient, like mysql has (I think). I don't know if those exist yet.
Richard
Dave Matthews wrote:
>> Is there a way to suppress the socket aceserver's
> Please enter userid:
> Please enter passwd:
> handshake? In the old aceserver I could connect via simple shell scripts
> directly. Now, even though I've set the database to "READ WORLD" in
> wspec/serverconfig.wrm, the prompt still comes up. If I try to include
> appropriate responses in the script, e.g.
>> /usr/local/bin/saceclient ceres.plbr.cornell.edu -port 2000 <<EOF
> anonymous
> guest
> EOF
>> the result is
>> Please enter userid: anonymous
> FATAL ERROR - (user, machine & program version not available) in file sclient.c, at line 67: Unable to get terminal attributes for input of password.
>> If I connect through saceclient interactively, I can enter anything as the
> userid and just hit Return for the passwd.
>> I see that this can be done through AcePerl (and it takes a lot of code to
> do it, in SocketServer.pm) but I'd like to be able to have more direct
> access.
>> (This is using ace4_9c under Linux.)
>> thanks,
> - Dave
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