automating sudo

[EchoCola]

I'm trying to create a here document to automate the sudo command. Anyone have any experience with this? This is what I have but it's not working, it still prompts for password:

!/usr/bin/ksh

sudo - root pkgadd <<HereDoc
password
HereDoc

I found this:

http://empty.sourceforge.net/

..but I would rather stay away from external tools.

Thanks for your help!

 

[Annihilannic]

Why not use the NOPASSWD: option in /etc/sudoers to avoid the password prompt? I'm pretty sure it won't read the password from stdin.

Also there's no need for "- root", just sudo pkgadd should suffice.

Incidentally, you don't need to use a here document to answer the pkgadd prompts, you can use an admin file instead to supply your answers in advance. See man -s4 admin and man pkgadd for details.

Annihilannic.

 

[EchoCola]

Annihilannic,

Thanks for your response. I will look into that option. Unfortunately we are using a custom written version the sudo command. Why? I don't know. I have to use the " - root" because for this command, I need to specify the user. I will look into that man file.