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Old 12-22-2006
splax splax is offline
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I am trying the basic thing first. Try to sudo with password and it is not working.
I have the passowrd stored in file "passwordfile" and my script:

Code:
#!/bin/sh
cat passwordfile | sudo -S su - myapp
But it is not working. any ideas.?
Last edited by splax; 12-22-2006 at 02:28 PM..