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Old 10-27-2005
pass the password to SU??
hi, i have a lot of su in my script. and it keeps asking for a password every single time. how can i pass the password to su command? any setup i need to do?

i used a redirect, not working.

su -username - c "command" < "password"

thanks for any help!
# 2  
Old 10-27-2005
You can't do this is a normal shell script and you shouldn't really since it involves putting clear text passwords in a text file.

If ther is no choice then you need to use something like expect (http://expect.nist.gov/)
# 3  
Old 10-27-2005
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Originally Posted by bikoyski
hi, i have a lot of su in my script. and it keeps asking for a password every single time. how can i pass the password to su command? any setup i need to do?

i used a redirect, not working.

su -username - c "command" < "password"

thanks for any help!
Which user is running the script?
# 4  
Old 10-27-2005
i'm logged in as 'a'.

but there are commands in the script that does a 'sed', 'rm', 'mv' , but 'a' is not the owner of the files. so i need to 'su' to the owner before i can do anything to the files.
# 5  
Old 10-27-2005
Look into using "sudo". You'll have to configure it properly, and you'll have to put in your password once, but it remembers it for a time, so all subsequent sudo calls won't require the password.
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Old 10-27-2005
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Originally Posted by ispepalocacoc
Look into using "sudo". You'll have to configure it properly, and you'll have to put in your password once, but it remembers it for a time, so all subsequent sudo calls won't require the password.
This and I believe expect would also be a solution to your issue. However I wouldn't consider it as a very secure one as you'll have to keep a password in a file somewhere.
 
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