Hi Salva,

Thanks for your response.

Unfortunately when I try your code I get:

sudo: sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo

When I add:

tty => 1,

I get my original error back again:

muxserver_accept_control: tcgetattr: Invalid argument tcgetattr: Invalid argument

If I ssh to the remote server and manually issue some 'sudo su' commands I get output like the below:

loguser@enfcdb01 ~$ sudo su imail We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things: #1) Respect the privacy of others. #2) Think before you type. #3) With great power comes great responsibility. sudo password for loguser: imail@enfcdb01 loguser$

So this works and I'm now able to operate as the imail user.

Using the '-c' option to su I get:

loguser@enfcdb01 ~$ sudo su -c "ls" imail ls: cannot open directory .: Permission denied

Trying the same using the 'pwd' command:

loguser@enfcdb01 ~$ sudo su -c "pwd" imail /home/loguser

This seems to just report the current working directory of the loguser user, i.e. it has not changed to the imail home directory (which is perhaps expected with the '-c' option to su?)

Any additional ideas on how I can get this to work?

Thanks,

Tim

Any additional ideas on how I can get this to work?

You could try using in conjuction with Expect;

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Net::OpenSSH;
use Expect;

select STDOUT; $| = 1;
select STDERR; $| = 1;
my $timeout  = 5;
my $password = '';
my $user     = '';
my $host     = '';

my $ssh = Net::OpenSSH->new(host=>$host, 
                            user=>$user,
                        password=>$password);

my ($pty, $pid) = $ssh->open2pty("sudo -k; sudo su - imail -c ls")
    or die "open2pty failed: " . $ssh->error . "\n";

my $expect = Expect->init($pty);
$expect->raw_pty(1);
$expect->expect($timeout, ':')
    or die "expect failed\n";
$expect->send("$password\n");
$expect->expect($timeout, "\n")
    or die "bad password\n";

while(<$pty>) {
  print "$. $_"
}
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poj

Similar question hope I can tag along with this thread. Need to run sudo -su nonroot and get a shell then run "cd /directory" and run a script with parameters in the directory like "./exec.sh parm1 file.lst" tried with

@cmd = "cd /directory; ./exec.sh parm1 file.lst";
$ssh->capture2({tty=>1},'sudo', '-su', "$nonrootuser", '--', @cmd)
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The echo commands in script listed but no actual executes? Any advice?

sudo: sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo

You are using an old version of sudo. Update it if you can.

I get my original error back again:

muxserver_accept_control: tcgetattr: Invalid argument tcgetattr: Inval
+id argument
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This error is harmless, you can safely ignore it. Also, you can silence it adding the following option into the constructor call: master_stderr_discard => 1

sudo su -c "pwd" imail
/home/loguser
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This seems to just report the current working directory of the loguser user

Add the flag -l to the su command: sudo su -lc "pwd" imail

Hi again,

Unfortunately the system is locked down so upgrading sudo is not an option. Anyway, adding tty >=1 seems to fix that error?

I added the master_stderr_discard option to the constructor and one of the error lines has gone away:

" muxserver_accept_control: tcgetattr: Invalid argument "

but I still get one instance of

" tcgetattr: Invalidargument "

So, using the below code I still can't seem to get access to the imail account:

  my @out = $ssh->capture({ tty => 1, stdin_data => "$password\n" },
                          'sudo', '-Sk',
'-p', '',
                          '--',
                          'su -lc "ls"  imail');
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Any ideas as to what I'm still doing wrong?

tim