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Greetings All- I'm about to embark on some remote management testing and need a way to login to a remote system running CentOS 4.x/5.x via SSH, su to root (using a password), then execute a command. I currently login to the boxes using key based SSH like this: ssh -i ~/remote_key admin@$REMOTEIP Then, I SU to root. However, if I try to do this automatically like this: ssh -i ~/remote_key admin@$REMOTEIP 'su -l' I'm getting: "standard in must be a tty" So, how am I able to remote login using SSH, su to root, then execute a command as root? All com...