From: James Dinkel <jdinkel@...>
Date: 2008-04-18T04:16:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows, Net::SSH: how do I send a password to sudo?

Jonathan Hudson wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:48:03 -0500
> James Dinkel <jdinkel@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>     end
>> course doesn't run the command.  Any ideas on how I could get the
>> password prompt to the user?
> 
> a. Add user / command to /etc/sudoers, so a pasword is not required;
> 
> b. Ask for the password in your script, and then
>  channel.exec "echo #{password} | sudo -S echo \"r00ted\"".
> 
> In the latter case, don't blame me when you later suffer from a severe
> case of unexpected local user privilege escalation.
> 
> -jh

ah yeah, I thought of the echoing in from stdin after I posted the 
question.  I don't see what you mean by "suffer from a severe case of 
unexpected local user privilege escalation" though.
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