https://riad.run/tags/agents/Recent content in agents on random thoughtsHugoen-USThu, 12 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://riad.run/posts/throwaway-sshd/Thu, 12 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://riad.run/posts/throwaway-sshd/<p>I wanted a coding agent to run a few commands as root on a server. The usual options all bother me:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Give it the password.</strong> Now it has the password, forever.</li> <li><strong>Add a <code>NOPASSWD</code> rule to sudoers.</strong> Permanent config, and it applies to every process of that user, not just the agent.</li> <li><strong>Share a tmux session.</strong> The agent has to scrape the screen and guess the exit code.</li> </ul> <p>What I wanted was closer to this: I start something on the server, the agent can run commands while it&rsquo;s running, and when I press Ctrl-C the access is gone.</p>