sudo - was ...Try, try again

[Rodney Tamblyn]

Oh, now I understand.  Wouldn't it be better to edit the sudoer file 
and modify the privilege for the named user to allow execution without 
password? (see man sudoers )

R.

On Tuesday, June 17, 2003, at 03:14 AM, Yennie at aol.com wrote:

> Just a poor choice of variable name.
>
> > get shell("echo '"&pwd&"' | sudo"&&cmd)
>
> This won't actually put "pwd" in the shell command, it's a variable.
>
> You'll still get something like:
>
> > echo 'MyPassword' | sudo MyCommand
>
> as the final shell command.
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>
> 'pwd' puts the working directory ie the directory you are currently
> working in for operations like file listing. copying etc...
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