From: Thomas <notpublic@...>
Date: 2006-09-16T00:40:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby + SSH + Sudo

Rick DeNatale wrote:
> 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
> 

And hope no one does a ps -a at the time and get account pwd.

Might be best to use separate account with sudo privs without need of pwd.

Just my 0.02 cents