Tim Nelson wrote:
YESS. It prevents the tty error from showing up and asks me for a password as expected. BUT, how do I then automate the entering of the password?
John Kennedy mentioned using expect which I've used before but found it to be 'finnicky'. I may have to look at it again...
Changing settings such as sudo configuration or ssh config may be daunting since I have a large number of systems(150+) that would need to be modified. :-/
Just login as root with ssh keys?
If you needed to somehow block brute force cracking attacks against the root account either globally disable password auth, or it appears you can use the option "PermitRootLogin without-password" to restrict remote root logins via SSH to keys only. I haven't tried this option myself.
nate