[paramiko] Handling sudo

[Jon Sabo]

You could put it in a file and then cat the file so every other user
on the box can't see your password with ps -ef.

2008/3/4 Stan <k12umm at gmail.com>:
> 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!
>  >>>>>
>  >>>>
>  >>>>
>  >>>>
>  >>>>
>  >>>
>  >>> --
>  >>> "Formulations of number theory: Complete, Consistent, Non-trivial.
>  >>> Choose two."
>  >>
>  >> --
>  >> "Formulations of number theory: Complete, Consistent, Non-trivial.
>  >> Choose two."
>  >
>
>  --
>  "Formulations of number theory: Complete, Consistent, Non-trivial. Choose
> two."
>
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