On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 05:13:37PM -0800, James A. Peltier alleged: > 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. 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. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20071114/b8b9eba9/attachment-0005.sig>