CODEWITHSUNDEEP
rubysshsudotty
Sod Almighty
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Reputation: 1786

How to use sudo programmatically via a pipe?

I am trying to write a program to perform remote administration of a system. To this end, I issue SSH commands and provide input programmatically via a pipe. I also capture their output.

Some of the commands require elevation, so I need to issue commands such as ssh user@host "sudo apt-get install blah".

The problem is, sudo refuses point-blank to accept a password via the terminal unless it finds a real terminal on its stdin. Is there some way I can fool sudo into allowing this?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 897

Answers (1)

seph
seph

Reputation: 6076

found here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/470383/how-to-avoid-prompt-password-for-sudo

echo 'password' | sudo -S command

-S accepts password from stdin

Upvotes: 6

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