From: Jonathan Hudson <jh+ruby-lang@...>
Date: 2008-04-18T04:25:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows, Net::SSH: how do I send a password to sudo?

On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:16:26 -0500
James Dinkel <jdinkel@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

Occurred to me that there is a chance of the password being visible
via ps or such. 

-jh