I am trying to write a program to perform remote administration of a system. To this end, I issue SSH commands and provide input programmatically via a pipe. I also capture their output.
Some of the commands require elevation, so I need to issue commands such as ssh user@host "sudo apt-get install blah".
The problem is, sudo refuses point-blank to accept a password via the terminal unless it finds a real terminal on its stdin. Is there some way I can fool sudo into allowing this?
found here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/470383/how-to-avoid-prompt-password-for-sudo
echo 'password' | sudo -S command
-S accepts password from stdin