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Non-interactive user switch to root
Is is possible switch user from a non-root user to root user without entering the password interactively inside a korn shell script which is run by a non-root user?
e.g. I have a non-root user called infodba who is in dba group and I want to create a shell script which is executed by infodba user and inside the script I want to switch to root user without getting prompted for the password and run chmod 777 command against a directory then switch back to infodba and create a file inside the directory. I like to perform the below in one script run by infodba without getting prompted for password. (1) TEST_DIR exists with the access below ls -ld TEST_DIR drwxrwxr-x 2 root sys 80 Nov 20 10:45 TEST_DIR (2) Give full access to TEST_DIR by root chmod 777 TEST_DIR ls -ld TEST_DIR drwxrwxrwx 2 root sys 80 Nov 20 10:46 TEST_DIR (3) Create a file inside TEST_DIR using infodba touch TEST_DIR/test.txt Cheers Steve Unix version : HP-UX 11.11 |
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I agree that you need sudo. This way you don't need to switch user, you can give that user permissions to run xxx program with yz switches. The command then turns into
sudo chmod 777 /some/directory This prevents that user from running it with any other perms and allows you to keep the root password sacred. Here it is from the software porting place: sudo-1.6.8p12 You'll need to edit the config file. Enjoy! |
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You can download Sudo from HP rather than going outside. It's in the HP-UX Internet Express for HP-UX 11i v1 product, available off Hewlett-Packard Co..
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