The user created by Whirr should be able to do sudo without requesting a
password.
On Jun 13, 2011 8:55 PM, "John Conwell" <j...@iamjohn.me> wrote:
> I've got a cluster that gets started by Whirr. After its running, I need
to
> create a config file and copy it up to a specific folder on the VM. I'm
> using the class.method SshClient.put() to copy the file up to the /tmp
> directory on my VM with no security issues. But then I need to copy the
> file to a different folder, via SshClient.exec method. But the cp command
> requires sudo because the user whirr created for me doesn't have privs to
> copy to the required folder. Also, I cant specify a password with the sudo
> command because the connection was made using x509 certificates.
>
> So how can I execute remote ssh commands that require sudo privs?
>
> --
>
> Thanks,
> John C
