"Dmitrii PapaGeorgio" <vrenna / woh.rr.comNOSPAM> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:MJ1eb.84012$xx4.10577106 / twister.neo.rr.com... > i want to use ruby under UNIX for launching different apps under > different users. how would i implement something like this > > let's say i create/launch a shell command from ruby like > > ssh user / local.com > > this will prompt the user for a password, and i would like a string > variable to be executed when it prompts for the password. It's not completely clear to me what you want. Do you want to execute a program on the server side whenever a user logs in via SSH? Or do you want to build a client side application that does SSH login and then starts an application on the server? robert