[paramiko] Handling sudo

[Stan]

Cant you just pipe the password and grab the outputs/readlines? For example
the command i have to run as sudo = rsh dunebot cifs top
so I just send the command = echo mysuperhardpassword | sudo -S rsh dunebot
cifs top
and that seems to work in normal ssh.


>>> Justin Cook wrote:
>>>> Ok, I'm an idiot. Password prompt goes to stderr...
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Justin Cook <jhcook at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> There are a couple ways I can see to do it readily offhand. One, I
>>>>>  haven't figured out how to receive the sudo password prompt yet.
>>>>>  Apparently, it writes the password prompt to a terminal device. So,
>>>>>  you should be able to set an alarm and send the password down the
>>>>>  channel in event there is no response from the command. This is
>>>>> dirty
>>>>>  IMO.
>>>>>
>>>>>  Secondly, and perhaps more clean to use in conjunction with the
>>>>> first
>>>>>  option, is to use the -k or -K option to invalidate the sudo
>>>>> timestamp
>>>>>  and thus requiring to send the password on every invocation and not
>>>>>  worry about whether or not you've been prompted. However, this isn't
>>>>>  very clean either in case no password is required.
>>>>>
>>>>>  Not a good solution in either respect in my opinion. If this can be
>>>>>  done easily with SSHClient someone shoot me in the foot!
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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>>> Choose two."
>>
>> --
>> "Formulations of number theory: Complete, Consistent, Non-trivial.
>> Choose two."
>

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