SSH and Sudo

davidsnt has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I need to write a application that can log in to a serevr farm and change as different user (sudo su -l user2) and execute a couple of commands and print the results. I dont want to use Expect module to supply the passwords and I dont have the infrastructure to have the ssh fingerprint copied to all the servers in the farm. Is there a possibility to use the default ssh -t option with Net::SSH::Perl module

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Re: SSH and Sudo by salva (Canon) on Nov 16, 2012 at 08:50 UTC
Check Net::OpenSSH and Net::SSH::Parallel. Both can be used to run commands through sudo easily. Net::SSH::Mechanize also claims to support sudo natively.	[reply]
Re: SSH and Sudo by betterworld (Curate) on Nov 16, 2012 at 07:47 UTC
`ssh -t` makes sure that sudo can prompt for a password. Copying ssh fingerprints (or public keys) avoids the password prompt by ssh. These are two different things.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: SSH and Sudo by shmem (Chancellor) on Nov 16, 2012 at 07:34 UTC
Is there a possibility to use the default ssh -t option with Net::SSH::Perl module Offhand, I'd say yes. Did you try?	[reply]

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