shell() and sudo

[Alex Rice]

On Wednesday, May 14, 2003, at 11:53  AM, Yennie at aol.com wrote:

> I think this may be what you are looking for:
>
> echo "password" | sudo -S ls
>
> This pipes your password to the "sudo" command. The -S option to sudo 
> reads the password from stdin.

On a multiuser machine that would be a security risk. Any user could 
see the password in cleartext if they happened to run "ps" while the 
command above was executing. On a single user machine it wouldn't 
really matter, but a better solution would be to wrap the sudo command 
using open/read/write process.

Alex Rice, Software Developer
Architectural Research Consultants, Inc.
alrice at ARCplanning.com
alrice at swcp.com