From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2008-04-18T06:48:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows, Net::SSH: how do I send a password to sudo?

On Apr 17, 2008, at 13:56 PM, James Dinkel wrote:
> James Dinkel wrote:
>>>>> channel.exec "echo #{password} | sudo -S echo \"r00ted\"".
>>
>> This isn't working.  It seems to be having a problem with the  
>> pipe.  I
>> think I'll have to figure out how to send stdin into a channel (I  
>> seem
>> to remember seeing something about this in the net-ssh docs).
>
> for the life of me I still can not get this to work.  The pipe  
> actually
> seems to work fine for other commands I tried (just to see) but not  
> with
> sudo.  What's the deal?!

Don't send a password to sudo via a pipe.

Change the sudoers file instead to allow your user to sudo without a  
password.