[EMAIL PROTECTED] enlightened us with: > I have a script that I cycle through nodes connect to them and run > uptime to get some information. I run the script as root so it > doesn't require a password on the rest of the nodes. It does > however barf on the nodes that are having trouble and require a > different password. Is there an easy way to skip these nodes? > Maybe redirect the password prompt to stdout or stderr or even skip > them?
Why not set up proper public/private key authentication, and don't bother with passwords at all? Sybren -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list