Re: Ethereal in the Background
Re: Ethereal in the Background
- Subject: Re: Ethereal in the Background
- From: Viv Kendon <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 14:46:59 +0100 (BST)
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006, Mike Alexander wrote:
--On April 13, 2006 9:08:40 PM -0700 "Michael W. Fleming" <email@hidden>
wrote:
I've installed fink's port of ethereal on a 10.4.6 mac at the office.
I've enabled x11forwarding in /etc/sshd_config to allow use of that
mac as an x11 client. I can launch ethereal successfully via the
following command:
ssh -Y user@host sudo /sw/bin/ethereal
But there are two inconveniences I'd love to do away with.
1) When I am prompted for the sudo password, it shows up in plain
text on the screen. Is there any way to keep the password from
echoing?
Can't help here...
2) I haven't been able to find any way to send the job into the
The following works:
ssh -Y user@host -f "echo 'password' | sudo /sw/bin/ethereal"
The single quotes round the password are needed if you
have shell-special characters in your password.
I'm sure you could add in commands to turn off the echo
within that double-quote command with a bit more work...
-- Viv
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Dr Viv Kendon email@hidden
Quantum Information tel: 0113 343 3858
Physics & Astronomy University of Leeds
http://quantum.leeds.ac.uk/~viv
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