Re: [Perl-beginners] Perl script to switch user to root.

[Silky Manwani]

Actually, My program has a list of stuff to be done which needs to be 
done as say user "x". Then I need to switch user to root as the rest of 
the program needs to do stuff as user root.

so, me doing

system("sudo su root");

doesn't help as it asks for the password.

On Mar 4, 2004, at 10:08 AM, Remko Lodder wrote:

perhaps you should let the script do something like SUDO,
and permit it to run a single command, or limited commandset
of root operations, even without password, (you dont want that actually
but since sudo can log stuff, it might be what you aim for)
Cheers

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Onderwerp: [Perl-beginners] Perl script to switch user to root.
Hello,

I want to write a perl script to switch user (to root). The problem is
that since it asks for the password, I am not sure how I would pass it
thru the script. I know I can run the "su root" with the system command
in perl, but how do I take care of passing the password.
Thanks.

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