From 11890b660b8fd5945f6829038abc7d5979b28937 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Casandra Qiu <cxhong@us.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2017 14:32:18 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] using sshpass (if availble) connect to openbmc console

---
 xCAT-server/share/xcat/cons/openbmc | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/cons/openbmc b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/cons/openbmc
index 6d166a7d9..2bda67133 100755
--- a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/cons/openbmc
+++ b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/cons/openbmc
@@ -91,7 +91,12 @@ if ($ENV{SSHCONSOLEPORT}) {
     $sshport= $ENV{SSHCONSOLEPORT};
 }
 
-print "If the console cannot connect, please verify whether ssh keys has been configured on the bmc for $username user\n";
+#user needs to download sshpass rpm if need to use it
+if (-x '/usr/bin/sshpass') {
+    exec "/usr/bin/sshpass -p $password ssh -p $sshport -l $username $bmcip";
+} else {
+    exec "ssh -p $sshport -l $username $bmcip";
+}
+
 
-exec "ssh -p $sshport -l $username $bmcip";