> From: Doug McNutt
> Sent: Monday, June 6, 2005 1:09 PM
>
> At 00:00 +0530 6/6/05, selva.ganesan wrote:
> >Is there any way to supply password (for sudo) directly from the script?
>
> I have been using a file in my home directory named ppas which is just the
> text of my password followed by a newline and nothing else. I set the
> privileges for the file to 600 as recommended for a similar file ".netrc"
> used by ftp clients.
>
> Now I can:
>
> sudo whatever < $HOME/ppas
>
> which feeds sudo via standard input. If sudo has been executed recently
> it will not ask for a password and will ignore the standard in.
>
> The security stinks but it is perhaps better than having your password in
> a bunch of AppleScript files.
>
You can increase the security by eliminating the grace period.
See this hint at macosxhints.com:
<http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050519125822728&query=sudo>
Dennis
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