On Friday, 15 July 2022 10:13:12 CEST J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Thursday, 14 July 2022 23:22:46 CEST Steve Wilson wrote: > > On 14/07/2022 07:35, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I am looking for a way to login to a host and automatically change to > > > root > > > using a password provided by an external program. > > > > > > The root passwords are stored in a vault and I can get passwords out > > > using > > > a script after authenticating. > > > > > > Currently, I need to do a lot of the steps manually: > > > ssh <user>@<host> > > > su - > > > (copy/paste password from vault) > > > > > > I would like to change this to: > > > <some-script> <host> > > > > > > Does anyone have any hints on how to achieve this without adding a > > > "NOPASSWD" entry into /etc/sudoers ? > > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > > > Joost > > > > Have you looked at dev-tcltk/expect? > > > > There's possibly an example you could try at > > <https://www.journaldev.com/1405/expect-script-ssh-example-tutorial> > > although you probably want to prompt for the password or retreive it > > programatically rather than putting it on the command line :o > > > > Steve. > > This looks promising. Will have a look to see if this can be made to work. > I will need to find a way to get the password programmatically inside the > script as I will not put it on the commandline and definitely not hard-coded > in a script.
Thank you, this works. Got the script to grab all the details needed from the vault and ends up giving me a remote root-prompt. -- Joost
