Gurus,
I need to add a user to all the machines. I need a script to do this. I did one but it does not allow me to su to root within a ssh session i open. It exists saying su: Sorry. Please let me know how i can do it. I do not have the freedom of using sudo either.
Regards

Try using expect.

Cheers,
K

Thanks, shall try it. But does it require me to pass the password in or hardcode the passwd in the script?

u can pass the password as an environment variable if u dont want to hardcode them.

define all the variable in another file
and just execute the following command.

. /path/passwords.txt

ur password.txt may contain

user=myuser
password=mypassword

use $user and $password in ur orignal script.



Anchal

expect can use .rhosts file for remote host operations.

Cheers,
K