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Old 10-02-2001
Melissa Melissa is offline
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Question su and password in a Korn shell script

Hi All,

In my shell script I want to use su - userid
and provide password for this user, but I don't know the syntax to do this, can anyone tell me what it is?

I have tried:
su - userid/password
and
su - userid password

but no luck...