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