This is not a great idea from a security standpoint. But the file you need is /.rhosts which must be writable only by root. To allow a user named barney to do this, /.rhosts needs the line:
localhost barney
I know, sounds mutually exclusive :-)
I have a script where I ask for a password and store it in a variable, and then use it with sudo on an array of other hosts. The password winds up being choed back to my terminal as well as to the process on the remote host, like:
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How do I suspend output of commands and tools that sometimes utter unwanted output? I know that I can always pipe to null or some such thing, but is there a simpler more elegant (i.e. accepted) practice? (4 Replies)
03-27-2006
