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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Switching between users on UNIX without private key (intentional) Post 302710061 by AmazingTyagoman on Wednesday 3rd of October 2012 11:26:41 PM
Old 10-04-2012
Data Switching between users on UNIX without private key (intentional)

Hello Everyone,

I'm new to unix and having trouble with switching users
s_user='sample_user', I need to connect to a remote server using the user "sampleuser" copy files on that remote server. However I am not allowed to add a private key to that same server nor add scripts on sampleuser's directory so this is the most plausible solution I could come up with.

########start#########
s_user='sampleuser'

su - $s_user

########end###########

it does prompts me for the password of that user but it terminates and has this "error"

./sample.sh[10]: 741 Killed

Please help me Smilie

And also it would be nice if you could with ideas in making a login 'prompt' for users. Thanks Very Much
 

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FLUXBOX-REMOTE(1)						  Fluxbox Manual						 FLUXBOX-REMOTE(1)

NAME
fluxbox-remote - command line access to key commands for fluxbox(1) SYNOPSIS
fluxbox-remote command DESCRIPTION
fluxbox-remote(1) is designed to allow scripts to execute most key commands from fluxbox(1). fluxbox-remote(1) will only work with fluxbox(1): its communications with fluxbox(1) are not standardized in any way. It is recommended that a standards-based tool such as wmctrl(1) be used whenever possible, in order for scripts to work with other window managers. CAVEATS
fluxbox-remote(1) uses the X11 protocol to communicate with fluxbox(1). Therefore, it is possible for any user with access to the X(7) server to use fluxbox-remote(1). For this reason, several key commands have been disabled. Users should be aware of the security implications when enabling fluxbox-remote(1), especially when using a forwarded X(7) connection. RESOURCES
session.screen0.allowRemoteActions: <boolean> This resource in ~/.fluxbox/init must be set to 'true' in order for fluxbox-remote(1) to function. Please read the CAVEATS first. ENVIRONMENT
In order to communicate with fluxbox(1), the DISPLAY environment variable must be set properly. Usually, the value should be ':0.0'. AUTHORS
This man page written by Mark Tiefenbruck <mark at fluxbox.org> SEE ALSO
fluxbox(1) fluxbox-keys(5) wmctrl(1) AUTHOR
Mark Tiefenbruck <mark@fluxbox.org> Author. fluxbox-remote.txt 27 February 2011 FLUXBOX-REMOTE(1)
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