From: Arlen Cuss <celtic@...>
Date: 2008-04-19T13:18:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby script to run command as root on remote linux system

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Hi,

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 2:48 AM, James Dinkel <jdinkel@gmail.com> wrote:

> I WAS just trying to pass on the password to sudo being run over
> Net::SSH on a remote linux server.  I eventually gave up on that and set
> sudo to run with no password, only to find out that does not work
> either!  For some reason there is a problem running sudo commands over
> Net::SSH.
>

Strange. It works for me:

>> Net::SSH.start 'localhost', :username => 'test', :password => '...' do
|session|
?> session.open_channel do |channel|
?> channel.on_data do |ch, data|
?> puts data
>> end
>> channel.exec 'sudo touch rootfile'
>> end
>> session.loop
>> end; nil
=> nil
>>

celtic@sohma:~$ ls -l ~test
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 test test  0 2008-04-19 14:16 a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 test test 26 2008-04-19 14:14 Examples ->
/usr/share/example-content/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  0 2008-04-19 14:17 rootfile
celtic@sohma:~$

Are you sure the user can always sudo without password?

Arlen

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