From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2006-09-09T01:24:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby + SSH + Sudo

On 9/7/06, Matt Rose <mattrose@folkwolf.net> wrote:
> there is a way to pass the password in using sudo.  I forget the
> syntax but the man page should have it.  If you're still curious
> tomorrow, I'll dig up some code I wrote to do exactly this.

FWIW, I can't for the life of me find any options in man sudo (on an
Ubuntu Dapper) which allows the password to be given as an arg.  The
only possibility might the the -a option

-a  The -a (authentication type) option causes sudo to use the specified
      authentication type when validating the user, as allowed by
      /etc/login.conf.  The system administrator may specify a list of
      sudo-specific authentication methods by adding an "auth-sudo" entry
      in /etc/login.conf.  This option is only available on systems
that support
      BSD authentication where sudo has been configured with the
      --with-bsdauth option.

This MAY allow it but it seems to require a specific system configuration.

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