Re: using ssh authentication with sudo

If you just want an authenticated user (via ssh or
otherwise) to be able to use certain sudo command(s),
can't you just use the nopassword sudo option?



> there is a number of ways I could be missing 
> something obvious so I apologize in 
> advance.
>
> My idea is should be possible to grant sudo access 
> with your ssh credentials. 
> the logic is that once the server has granted access
> to a client based on its 
> ssh keys, it should be possible to use the same 
> authentication to grant sudo 
> privileges.  After all, if a key pair is good enough
> to get you into one 
> machine, why isn't it good enough to grant you the 
> full Monty?
>
> Assuming that it is, how could a local program 
> determine that the process it is 
> running in has done so via ssh key authentication. 
> Would it query the agent 
> directly?  Would it be able to use agent 
> forwarding?  Or is this a really bad 
> idea that I should just give up on?
>
> ---eric



       
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