Re: OT: Scripting with sudo password

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]



On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 05:13:37PM -0800, James A. Peltier alleged:
> gjgowey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >How about using ssh with certificate authenitication instead of sudo?
> >
> That's great for SSH, I already do that, but if I ssh to a system and 
> then type sudo it prompts me for a password.  I want something like this
> 
> ssh_and_sudo_on_all_hosts
> this script prompts for passwords and provides passwords to all ssh or 
> sudo sessions
> 
> ssh => some_host
> uses keys/certificates whatever so no password
> 
> sudo do_some_command (prompts for password)
> password entered at start of ssh_and_sudo_on_all_hosts is passed to sudo 
> and sudo runs.

The solution is password-less authentication.  Kerberos, ssh keys, sudo, etc.
But you don't seem to want to do those things.

So do exactly as you've already mentioned, use expect, prompt for a password,
and feed the passord to remote shells as required.

Attachment: pgpJIgwHgJevr.pgp
Description: PGP signature

_______________________________________________
CentOS mailing list
CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[Index of Archives]     [CentOS]     [CentOS Announce]     [CentOS Development]     [CentOS ARM Devel]     [CentOS Docs]     [CentOS Virtualization]     [Carrier Grade Linux]     [Linux Media]     [Asterisk]     [DCCP]     [Netdev]     [Xorg]     [Linux USB]
  Powered by Linux