From: "wbsurfver@..." <wbsurfver@...>
Date: 2008-02-08T00:09:57+09:00
Subject: Re: using net::ssh shell to sudo to another user and execute commands

On Feb 7, 10:00 am, yermej <yer...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 7, 8:22 am, "wbsurf...@yahoo.com" <wbsurf...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The following program does not get past the part where sudo asks for a
> > password. Any ideas ?
> > This is run from windows onto a linux box, so I can't use a local ssh
> > command.
>
> This is just a guess as I haven't used Net::SSH, but you might need to
> append a newline to the password that's being sent to sudo.
>
> Also, there are Win32 ports of the ssh client so you probably could
> use a local ssh command.

Thanks,

 Adding a newline didn't work. The remote host will prompt with
"Password:" . Is it possible I have to read that prompt out of the
stream ?

Is it possible that linux sudo reads the password from the terminal
and not stdin ?

In order to use win32 ssh, I have to install that from someplace so
that I can use it from a DOS shell I think you mean ? Otherwise if I
try to do ssh inside of a ruby process it won't work.