Re: [Fab-user] How to pass sudo passwords

[Geoff Crompton]

On 31/01/12 11:50 PM, Carlton Gibson wrote:
> It sounds like you want to run commands that require elevated privileges
> without either supplying a password at runtime or hardcoding it or
> editing the sudoers file to not require a password.
>
> AFAIK, can't be done. (This has very little to do with Fabric though.)

An work around for these limitiations might be to setup specific 
commands in the sudoers file that are permitted with NOPASSWORD. But 
perhaps allowing a user to call 'rm' and 'tar' as with sudo and 
NOPASSWORD is not satisfactory. Perhaps you might want to write a script 
that does exactly what is permitted to be done, and allow NOPASSWORD 
running of that specific script.

Cheers,
Geoff