Hi Jon, After some reading in the man pages I think I need to use the sudo -S option that passes the password via the stdin instead of the terminal...
Yep, that worked :) Thanks John On 5 Oct 2008 at 11:44, Jon Elson wrote: > John Thornton wrote: > > My question is how can I pass my password to the "sudo make setuid" > > line? > > > > > I can't guarantee this will work with sudo, but the shell mechanism to > pass additional lines to a command goes like this : > > progx << 5 > next 5 lines are input to "progx" > > I tried this and it seems to work here, on a CentOS system, so in your > case it would look like : > > sudo make setuid << 1 > your-password > > Jon > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & > win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event > anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing > list [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
