Calling Putty via Powershell using Plink - how to auto answer the security key question

[bmccool]

I'm working on a script that requires calling Putty via Powershell using Plink.exe.  However, we use auto-generated keys so I need to answer the "do you trust this security key" question when running my script.

I've found through this blog (http://www.virtu-al.net/2013/01/07/ssh-powershell-tricks-with-plink-exe/) you can use "echo y | plink.exe", however I'm not sure where to put this in the script to get it to work correctly.  Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks!

[LucD]

Not sure what you mean, in Alan's post it shows how to pipe the 'y' to the invocation of plink.exe.

Perhaps you could show us your script, or at least the part where you plink.exe

[kunaludapi]

Use something like below. as you are using keys for ssh, no password  is required.

Write-Output "yes" | PLINK.EXE -ssh $remoteserver -P 22 -pw $password -m $command

example: http://kunaludapi.blogspot.in/2014/01/install-rpm-on-redhat-linux-using.html

[LucD]

That is exactly what is written in Alan's blog post if I'm not mistaken ?

[bmccool · Accepted solution]

The issue was the "-batch" option.  Removing that fixed the issue.