After entering the password, you can Ctrl-Z (Suspend), then from the shell, enter 'bg' to background the process. As long as it doesn't continue to interact with the terminal (warnings, notices), you should be satisfied with the result.
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 5:12 AM, Paul Boniol <[email protected]> wrote: > I need to run a provided program from the command line. > It starts an X program. > It then prompts for a password from the command line. > > I'd like to continue on at the command line after entering the password > (rather than having to open another bash session) while the program > continues to run. > > You can't just append ' &' because it asks for a password as input. So it > hangs the process, waiting for input. > > Call me nuts, but I don't like saving an important password in a local file, > so I'm pretty sure redirecting STDIN is out. > > Is there any way to enter the password and then tell it to fork, from the > command line? (I don't think there is, but it would be really nice.) > > Paul > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Tilghman -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
