I Need To Switch To A Different Account Before A Shell Is Executed. Unforturnately I Have To Call This Shell Via A Third Party App And The User Account Of The Processes That I Need To Kill Is Not The Same As The Default Account Gui Signs In As. I Need The Password To Be Hard Coded When Prompted After The Su Is Kicked Off.

Su Account
Password: (any Tips On How To Get This Password Populated Automatically)

-j

or use rsh -l <myuser> -h localhost
of course, you will need to create some "security hole" by setting up .rhosts for that user to allow application user execute remote shell as <myuser>.

Or, to maintain security, sudo might be the solution. You could also look into Expect although this will be less secure as passwords may have to be hard coded.

I'd personally say never hard code passwords into applications, as not only is this a huge security hole, but when the su target changes their password, the application then requires maintenance.

Cheers
ZB

I do not have root access and the UNIX team will not install expect or sudo. Any other ideas?