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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Cron job initiating ssh AND sudo (from user, not root) Post 302511701 by eh3civic on Thursday 7th of April 2011 01:40:23 PM
Old 04-07-2011
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Originally Posted by kitykity
I know you've said you added the absolute path... but in the command above, I don't see an absolute path to sudo...
Oh sorry, I edited out the paths on my post to more easily present the coding. I haven't tried the solution on that page yet because it requires modifying REQUIRESTTY, which I get around by using the -t option in ssh. I have security worries with commenting out REQUIRESTTY, but if no other options come up, I suppose that is what will have to happen.

---------- Post updated at 01:40 PM ---------- Previous update was at 10:48 AM ----------

I did try the individual version of what was described about, but now I have satisfied my test script, but I still have issues with my "real" script. Just in case, I'll post the temporary solution for now, which was just to add in a user based requiretty in /etc/sudoers

Default:john !requiretty

I'll post my supersolution, once I come across it.
 

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Config::Model::OpenSsh(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			       Config::Model::OpenSsh(3pm)

NAME
Config::Model::OpenSsh - OpenSsh config editor SYNOPSIS
invoke editor The following will launch a graphical editor (if Config::Model::TkUI is installed): sudo cme edit sshd command line This command will add a "Host Foo" section in "~/.ssh/config": cme modify ssh Host:Foo ForwardX11=yes programmatic This code snippet will remove the "Host Foo" section added above: use Config::Model ; use Log::Log4perl qw(:easy) ; my $model = Config::Model -> new ( ) ; my $inst = $model->instance (root_class_name => 'Ssh'); $inst -> config_root ->load("Host~Foo") ; $inst->write_back() ; DESCRIPTION
This module provides a configuration editors (and models) for the configuration files of OpenSsh. ("/etc/ssh/sshd_config", /etc/ssh/ssh_config and "~/.ssh/config"). This module can also be used to modify safely the content of these configuration files from a Perl programs. Once this module is installed, you can edit "/etc/ssh/sshd_config" with run (as root) : # cme edit sshd To edit /etc/ssh/ssh_config, run (as root): # cme edit ssh To edit ~/.ssh/config, run as a normal user: # cme edit ssh user interfaces As mentioned in cme, several user interfaces are available with "edit" subcommand: o A graphical interface is proposed by default if Config::Model::TkUI is installed. o A Curses interface with option "cme edit ssh -ui curses" if Config::Model::CursesUI is installed. o A Shell like interface with option "cme edit ssh -ui shell". AUTHOR
Dominique Dumont, (ddumont at cpan dot org) SEE ALSO
cme, Config::Model, perl v5.14.2 2012-10-29 Config::Model::OpenSsh(3pm)
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