Check the man page for the sudoers file. There is a flag called NOPASSWD that you can set on a user that means they will not be prompted for a password when executing privileged commands. There are some related gotchas to set it up properly though, so a read through the man page is highly recommended.
Alternatively, script the password entry using expect. ;) - Peter On 19/07/2011 3:50 AM, Glenn Andersson wrote: > Hi! > > Well of course i can use sudo but the system will ask for password for every > check, and that will make the check fail. > > If someone else have a functional idea about sudo I will gladly listen :) > > Best regards, > Glenn Andersson > > -----Original Message----- > From: G.W. Haywood [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: den 14 juli 2011 11:07 > To: Glenn Andersson > Cc: '[email protected]' ([email protected]) > Subject: Re: [smokeping-users] remote user problem > > Hi there, > > On Thu, 14 Jul 2011, Glenn Andersson wrote: > >> I use my RemoteFPing probe to do an fping on another machine (in this >> case an OpenBSD machine). The problem is that fping can only be >> executed as root, so my question is if someone have made this work on >> their BSD machines? > Can you not use Sudo? > > http://www.softpanorama.org/Access_control/sudo.shtml > http://linux-bsd-sharing.blogspot.com/2009/03/howto-using-sudo-on-freebsd.html > > -- > > 73, > Ged. > > _______________________________________________ > smokeping-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users _______________________________________________ smokeping-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users
