Re: Request a PTY when running a command

[Andreas Schneider <asn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 30 July 2013 09:14:59 William Orr wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to execute a command with sudo. sudo requires that I provide it
> with an ask pass program or have a PTY.  Currently I have code that exec's
> a program on the remote end (called wshd, wshd exec's sudo), and then
> requests a PTY. This code returns an error reading "Channel request pty-req
> failed." If I request a PTY prior to exec'ing a command, wshd never gets
> exec'd.
> 
> What I'm trying to do here is similar to `ssh -t <hostname> sudo whoami`,
> which exec's sudo, but also forces allocation of a PTY.
> 
> I'm using libssh 0.5.4 on RHEL 6.1. Let me know if you need more
> information.
> 
> http://bpaste.net/show/118708/

Did you read our tutorial?

http://api.libssh.org/master/libssh_tutor_shell.html


Cheers,


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