trying to spawn a child process as root user without being prompted in main script.

test.js

// test by running `node test.js`

var spawn = require("child_process").spawn
var child = spawn("sudo", [__dirname + "/bin/server"])

child.stderr.on('data', function (data) {
  child.stdin.write("somepassword" + '\n');
})

Unfortunately, this doesn't work anymore (Mac Catalina) :/

Unfortunately, this doesn't work anymore (Mac Catalina) :/

Tried on Big Sur, still working.

Did not work on Monterey (12.0.1). I added the "-S" flag to the beginning of the args array and that fixed it. const child = spawn("sudo", ["-S","-k","echo","Hello"]) Per this man page