On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 3:36 PM, James Hogarth <james.hoga...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On 3 March 2010 21:20, Tim Nelson <tnel...@rockbochs.com> wrote: > > Greetings All- > > > > I'm about to embark on some remote management testing and need a way to > login to a remote system running CentOS 4.x/5.x via SSH, su to root (using a > password), then execute a command. > > > > I currently login to the boxes using key based SSH like this: > > > > ssh -i ~/remote_key ad...@$remoteip > > > > Then, I SU to root. However, if I try to do this automatically like this: > > > > ssh -i ~/remote_key ad...@$remoteip 'su -l' > > > > I'm getting: > > > > "standard in must be a tty" > > > > So, how am I able to remote login using SSH, su to root, then execute a > command as root? > > > > All comments and suggestions welcome. Thanks! > > > > --Tim > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS@centos.org > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > Best off configuring sudo for that user (with no password) and make > sure that user has !requiretty in the sudoers configuration. > > James > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Does "ssh -t" help? -- j
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