Passing hashed ssh password in a script

Question

I am attempting to make a script to log into a server via ssh I can not use keys in this project. So i am trying to pass a hashed password but I am not having any luck .. here is what I have. Any help would be great.

!/usr/bin/expect -f
spawn ssh nix@server
expect "password:"
send "echo "6YepVNFkMm1YO/WwA+mZEYZrhfVStH4+01fHTCf/La0=" | \
  openssl enc -base64 -d -aes-256-cbc -nosalt -pass env:passwd"
interact

Here is the return I get:

nix's password: extra characters after close-quote
    while executing
"send "echo "6YepVNFkMm1YO/WwA+mZEYZrhfVStH4+01fHTCf/La0=" | \
  openssl enc -base64 -d -aes-256-cbc -nosalt -pass env:passwd"
interact
"

Answer 1

Try this solution :

!/usr/bin/expect -f
spawn ssh nix@localhost
expect "password:"
send "echo '6YepVNFkMm1YO/WwA+mZEYZrhfVStH4+01fHTCf/La0=' | \
  openssl enc -base64 -d -aes-256-cbc -nosalt -pass env:passwd"
interact

I replaced those double quotes with single quotes ie "send "echo "6YepVNFkMm1YO/WwA+mZEYZrhfVStH4+01fHTCf/La0=" to "echo '6YepVNFkMm1YO/WwA+mZEYZrhfVStH4+01fHTCf/La0='

Hope it helps.