Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 13:18:04 +1100 From: aunty <aunty@comcen.com.au> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: password echo with remote sudo Message-ID: <20000320131804.B47022@comcen.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20000319190548.A66481@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20000320120041.A47022@comcen.com.au> <20000319190548.A66481@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 07:05:48PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Mar 20), aunty said:
> >
> > We're trying to use a script which runs a sudo command on a remote
> > linux box via ssh, and the sudo password keeps echoing to the screen
> > even though the ssh password does not.
>
> Add a -t to the ssh commandline. When ssh is run with a command
> argument, it does not allocate a pty on the remote end (on the
> assumption that you're running this from a cron script and don't want
> to waste a pty). No pty means no echoing; in fact, your local terminal
> is echoing your characters at this point.
Spot on, it works like a beauty now, thanks much!
--
Regards,
-*Sue*-
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