gjgowey at tmo.blackberry.net 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. -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-3610 Fax : 778-782-3045 Mobile : 778-840-6434 E-Mail : jpeltier at cs.sfu.ca Website : http://gruvi.cs.sfu.ca | http://scirf.cs.sfu.ca MSN : subatomic_spam at hotmail.com