On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 05:13:37PM -0800, James A. Peltier alleged: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >How about using ssh with certificate authenitication instead of sudo? > > > That's great for SSH, I already do that, but if I ssh to a system and > then type sudo it prompts me for a password. I want something like this > > ssh_and_sudo_on_all_hosts > this script prompts for passwords and provides passwords to all ssh or > sudo sessions > > ssh => some_host > uses keys/certificates whatever so no password > > sudo do_some_command (prompts for password) > password entered at start of ssh_and_sudo_on_all_hosts is passed to sudo > and sudo runs.
The solution is password-less authentication. Kerberos, ssh keys, sudo, etc. But you don't seem to want to do those things. So do exactly as you've already mentioned, use expect, prompt for a password, and feed the passord to remote shells as required.
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