Thanks a lot David ! This sounds very do-able and highly efficient ;)
-aman -----Original Message----- From: David le Blanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 February 2004 13:55 To: Thind, Aman; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: How to su in a script if su needs a pswd ? aman, Check out sudo's 'NOPASSWD' option. IT allows the admin to give you (or the source account) access to 'sudo -u target_account "command"' without entering a password. The SET UID script thing should not work. If it does, upgrade your OS for security reasons :-) Cheers. -----Original Message----- From: Thind, Aman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 18 February 2004 2:18 AM To: David le Blanc Subject: RE: How to su in a script if su needs a pswd ? Thanks David ! The only reason I need to su is that the account I need to su to has write permissions to a drive which my personal id does not. Is it possible for me to be given access only to that drive through sudo and not to the whole disk as an ordinary sudo enabling me to run a command like mv or rm as root might do ? (I do not know of an option to make my commands run as a user other than root through sudo) If yes then I guess I'll have to just plead to my Computer Security division to get this done :p Thanks again, -aman -----Original Message----- From: David le Blanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 February 2004 19:56 To: Thind, Aman Subject: RE: How to su in a script if su needs a pswd ? Can you have your username added to Sudo to execute commands as the other user? (rather than root) ? This is a long time problem, and sudo *is* the better answer. Other options usually lead to running setuid programs with parameters to tell them what to do, and that is what sudo does best. -----Original Message----- From: Thind, Aman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 18 February 2004 12:21 AM To: Perl Beginners Subject: How to su in a script if su needs a pswd ? Hello, I am running a command as part of my script on a Unix box for which I need to su to a different username. This su requires a password as well. I could not find any option of passing the password in su. Tried the shell script solution of here docs : su <<TillEnd admin test TillEnd But even this does not work. Could anyone please guide me how to su in a script (shell / perl) ? I cannot have my username added to the /etc/sudoers to execute commands as root... Thanks in advance -aman -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
