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Robert Munteanu
Asked: 2013-11-02 06:17:41 +0800 CST

Writing an upstart file which allows the user to input username and password

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I'm trying to write an upstart file for OpenConnect. The task is pretty simple, but I'm stuck because I don't want to provide the username and password in a config file, but prompt the user to provide them each time.

The upstart file, placed in /etc/init/openconnect.conf is

exec /usr/sbin/openconnect --script=/etc/vpnc/vpnc-script my-gw.example.com

However, when I execute 

start openconnect

the process is backgrounded immediately and I get no chance to provide input.

How can I make this upstart job ask the user for input?

ubuntu

1 Answers

  1. I can't speak to Upstart doing something requiring user input, but it sounds like that is a no go from the comments.

    If you wanted to use openconnect with Upstart, no additional config file, AND not ask for user input then you can use -u is for the username and --passwd-on-stdin for the password. For example:

    script
  echo 'pw_here' | openconnect --passwd-on-stdin vpn_domain_here -u username_here
end script
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