Tim Nelson wrote: > > > Tim Nelson > Systems/Network Support > Rockbochs Inc. > (218)727-4332 x105 > > ----- "Jeremy Rosengren" <jeremy.rosengren at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 3:36 PM, James Hogarth > <james.hogarth at gmail.com <mailto:james.hogarth at gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > > On 3 March 2010 21:20, Tim Nelson <tnelson at rockbochs.com > <mailto:tnelson at 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 admin@$REMOTEIP > > > > > > Then, I SU to root. However, if I try to do this automatically > like this: > > > > > > ssh -i ~/remote_key admin@$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 at centos.org <mailto:CentOS at 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 at centos.org <mailto:CentOS at centos.org> > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > > Does "ssh -t" help? > > 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. :-/ > > --Tim > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > I found that Python expect is far more logical and understandable for complex tasks than the expect command. ChrisG