[Lincs] sudo password

[Ben Francis]

I'm using Remote Desktop software to send a unix shell command to 
multiple computers on a network in order to delete a directory on the 
hard disk in the same location on each machine. Something like:

    rm -dR /directory/subdirectory/

The command needs root access to run, I can't run the command as a root 
user but the username I'm using does have sudo access to all the 
machines with the same password for each. The problem is that I can only 
send a command, I can't interact with a program once it's running. So 
when I type:

    sudo rm -dR /directory/subdirectory/

the command is prompted for a password to give sudo access and I can't 
type in the password.

Is there a way of sending the password along with the sudo command in 
plain text to reply to the prompt for a password? I know that sounds 
horribly insecure but this is a private network which can be isolated 
from the Internet and security isn't much of an issue.

Just wondered if anyone could think of a solution.

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Ben "tola" Francis            http://hippygeek.co.uk
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