Quotation Ugliness

[Tim Daneliuk]

On 11/26/2014 10:16 AM, random832 at fastmail.us wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2014, at 11:02, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
>> On 11/26/2014 10:00 AM, random832 at fastmail.us wrote:
>>> On Wed, Nov 26, 2014, at 10:55, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
>>>> Nope.  Password only exist in memory locally.
>>>
>>> How does it send it to the remote sudo?
>>>
>>
>> Over paramiko transport (ssh) and then only if it sees a custom
>> string coming back from sudo asking for the pw.
>
> So why not ask for the password only after seeing that string?
>


Because this is a batch program. Once launched against hundreds or even
thousands of machines, no further user interaction is involved.
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