I'm establishing an ssh connection and then I want to run a command as
sudo.  Now, normally, the user will be prompted to put in a password to
run the command as sudo.

Here is my script:
-----------
Net::SSH.start( 'files02', 'myuser', 'mypassword' ) do |session|
  session.open_channel do |channel|
    channel.on_data do |ch, data|
      puts data
    end

    channel.exec "sudo echo \"hello\""

  end

  session.loop
end
------------

But this doesn't prompt for a password ( not surprisingly ) and of
course doesn't run the command.  Any ideas on how I could get the
password prompt to the user?

Jonathan Hudson wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:48:03 -0500
> James Dinkel <jdinkel@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>     end
>> course doesn't run the command.  Any ideas on how I could get the
>> password prompt to the user?
>
> a. Add user / command to /etc/sudoers, so a pasword is not required;
>
> b. Ask for the password in your script, and then
>  channel.exec "echo #{password} | sudo -S echo \"r00ted\"".
>
> In the latter case, don't blame me when you later suffer from a severe
> case of unexpected local user privilege escalation.
>
> -jh

ah yeah, I thought of the echoing in from stdin after I posted the
question.  I don't see what you mean by "suffer from a severe case of
unexpected local user privilege escalation" though.

>> >  channel.exec "echo #{password} | sudo -S echo \"r00ted\"".

This isn't working.  It seems to be having a problem with the pipe.  I
think I'll have to figure out how to send stdin into a channel (I seem
to remember seeing something about this in the net-ssh docs).

James Dinkel wrote:
>
>>> >  channel.exec "echo #{password} | sudo -S echo \"r00ted\"".
>
> This isn't working.  It seems to be having a problem with the pipe.  I
> think I'll have to figure out how to send stdin into a channel (I seem
> to remember seeing something about this in the net-ssh docs).

for the life of me I still can not get this to work.  The pipe actually
seems to work fine for other commands I tried (just to see) but not with
sudo.  What's the deal?!