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I just tried
su - username<<EOF
password
and I still got prompted for a password after this.
Would you be able to post an example?
Cheers,
Douglas JL.
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su - username<<EOF
password
and I still got prompted for a password after this.
Would you be able to post an example?
Cheers,
Douglas JL.
A salesman is a machine for turning coke into obnoxious arrogance.
Common sense is what tells you the world is flat.
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As far as I know, su expects the password from stdin - there's no way around this. There is a utility called expect ( which may do the trick.
Greg.
Greg.
The way I got around this was as follows.
Create a script for the vision user called vscr.sh.
Then, as root, run a script with with the following line in it:
su - vision -c vscr.sh
This ran the script OK in a shell as the vision user.
A salesman is a machine for turning coke into obnoxious arrogance.
Common sense is what tells you the world is flat.
Create a script for the vision user called vscr.sh.
Then, as root, run a script with with the following line in it:
su - vision -c vscr.sh
This ran the script OK in a shell as the vision user.
A salesman is a machine for turning coke into obnoxious arrogance.
Common sense is what tells you the world is flat.
The more acceptable way of running stuff as other users (interactive or scripted) is "sudo".
Yes, there is coding in place that prevents "su" (or most other commands) from accepting a password from a non-interactive source.
Yes, there is coding in place that prevents "su" (or most other commands) from accepting a password from a non-interactive source.
Hi.
Maybe sudo isn't a universal unix command?
I can't find any reference to it in the manual & it doesn't seem to be recognised when I try to call it.
DJL
A salesman is a machine for turning coke into obnoxious arrogance.
Common sense is what tells you the world is flat.
Maybe sudo isn't a universal unix command?
I can't find any reference to it in the manual & it doesn't seem to be recognised when I try to call it.
DJL
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Yes only root can "su" without providing a password.
Obviously you shouldn't be able to provide a password from a readable file ... because it would be an humoungus leak in the security system ... because everybody could read that file.
sudo is not a standard command, but an third party utility
Obviously you shouldn't be able to provide a password from a readable file ... because it would be an humoungus leak in the security system ... because everybody could read that file.
sudo is not a standard command, but an third party utility
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