From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2006-09-10T02:00:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby + SSH + Sudo

On 9/8/06, Alex LeDonne <aledonne.listmail@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
> >
> > Matt
>
> On my system, according to man sudo, -S causes sudo to read the
> password from STDIN.

Yep, missed that one.

So:

echo secretPasswd | ssh -S command...

should do the trick

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