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Fix sudo authentication in background processes

NousResearch/hermes-agent · cluster 133622 · agent

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3 open items. Fix attempted, not merged.

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1open issue
2open PRs
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Known?
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Fix event
No fix has been merged to main. see the attempts below.
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1 issue and 2 PRs.

These items address a bug where sudo invoked in a background process cannot authenticate, because the local spawn path skips the sudo rewrite and stdin is /dev/null. The fixes involve supplying a proper password path rather than an EOF that burns PAM.

Open issues1

  • Issue#133622[Bug]: `sudo` in a background process can never authenticate or prompt (local `spawn_local` skips the sudo rewrite; stdin is /dev/null)

Open PRs2

  • PR#133629fix(tools): give background sudo a password path instead of a PAM-burning EOF
  • PR#134324fix(terminal)
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  • Pairwise link density 0.67: the share of item pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. 1.00 means every pair is linked.

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