On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 03:26:58PM +0100, Chris Davies wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 01:04:31PM +0200, Javier Barroso wrote: > >> In sid with key passwordless auth : > >> > >> ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "sudo ls" > >> password: password > >> > >> And password is shown you > > > I definitely consider that a bug. Who to file against? I don't know. > > Is this new behavior? > > It's not a bug (well, not in the classic sense), and it's not new > behaviour. > > > > Su doesn't work at all. > > su complains "su: must be run from a terminal", and this helps point > towards the underlying issue. When you run ssh with a command argument, > it does not (by default) create a terminal. This means there's no way > to disable echo, so sudo ends up prompting with a visible password. > > The solution is to force ssh to allocate a pseudo-tty, with the -t flag: > > ssh -t [EMAIL PROTECTED] sudo ls
thanks for the lesson. A
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