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External Tools and Sudo [message #1405942]

Fri, 08 August 2014 15:03

Nelson Teixeira

Messages: 6
Registered: December 2011

Junior Member

Hello, I'm trying to setup a bash script as an external tool. This script, calls 2 other scripts, one of which uses sudo in 2 lines and is called twice. Graphically explaining:

    main 
     | call script1 (has sudo in 2 lines)
     | call script2 (no sudo)
     | call script1 (has sudo in 2 lines)

So what I did was using

SUDO_ASKPASS="/usr/bin/ssh-askpass" sudo -A -v

in the main script and expect script1 would recognize first sudo credentials in both times it runs and in both lines. It works as a charm in the terminal. But when I call it using external tools it pops the password dialog ok, but then I get

sudo: no askpass program specified, try setting SUDO_ASKPASS
sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified
sudo: pam_authenticate:Authentication information cannot be recovered

twice. One for each time script1 is executed. Substituting

SUDO_ASKPASS="/usr/bin/ssh-askpass" sudo -A -v

Gksudo ls > /dev/null

didn't work with the exact same result.

Anyone knows how can I make sudo behave nicely inside Eclipse ?

-Nelson

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Re: External Tools and Sudo [message #1406005 is a reply to message #1405942]

Fri, 08 August 2014 18:57

Dilton McGowan II

Messages: 110
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

On Fri, 08 Aug 2014 12:03:36 -0300, Nelson Teixeira wrote:

> Hello, I'm trying to setup a bash script as an external tool. This script, calls 2 other scripts, one of which uses sudo in 2 lines and is called twice. Graphically explaining:
> main
> | call script1 (has sudo in 2 lines)
> | call script2 (no sudo)
> | call script1 (has sudo in 2 lines)
> So what I did was using
> SUDO_ASKPASS="/usr/bin/ssh-askpass" sudo -A -vin the main script and expect script1 would recognize first sudo credentials in both times it runs and in both lines. It works as a charm in the terminal. But when I call it using external tools it pops the password dialog ok, but then I get
> sudo: no askpass program specified, try setting SUDO_ASKPASS
> sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified
> sudo: pam_authenticate:Authentication information cannot be recoveredtwice. One for each time script1 is executed. Substituting
> SUDO_ASKPASS="/usr/bin/ssh-askpass" sudo -A -vbyGksudo ls > /dev/nulldidn't work with the exact same result.
>
> Anyone knows how can I make sudo behave nicely inside Eclipse ?
>
> -Nelson

I'd think that using "export SUDO_ASKPASS" etc. in the main script
would be sufficient.

If one of the child scripts can't find the env variable
then you might need to export it from your .bashrc, .bash_profile
or .profile, relog, restart eclipse.

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