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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Problem with feeding password while changing to root user Post 302756555 by mhmn on Wednesday 16th of January 2013 05:31:05 AM
Old 01-16-2013
Problem with feeding password while changing to root user
i want to change user to "root" from another user while running a script. how can i automatically feed the password? for example, i want to write a script say "script.sh"... it will first run the command "p" as mhmn user, and then it will change the user to "root" by using "su - root" command. at this point it asks for the password for root. say the password is "blue". i want to feed the p.w. automatically while it asks for it. inside script.sh it will look something like-
Code:
 
#p
#su - root 
(feed p.w. automatically here)
#p

Last edited by Scott; 01-16-2013 at 06:34 AM.. Reason: Code tags
 

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ns-newpwpolicy.pl

NS-NEWPWPOLICY.PL(8)					      System Manager's Manual					      NS-NEWPWPOLICY.PL(8)

NAME

       ns-newpwpolicy.pl - Directory Server perl script for preparing new password policies.

SYNOPSIS

       ns-newpwpolicy.pl [-Z serverID] [-v] [-D rootdn] { -w password | -j filename } [-P protocol] [-p port] [-h host] -U UserDN -S SuffixDN

DESCRIPTION

       Adds entries required for implementing the user- and subtree-level password policy.

OPTIONS

       A summary of options is included below:

       -Z Server Identifier
	      The server ID of the Directory Server instance.  If there is only one instance on the system, this option can be skipped.

       -D Root DN
	      The Directory Manager DN, or root DN.  If not specified, the script will search the server instance configuration for the value.

       -w password
	      The rootdn password.

       -w -
	      Prompt for the rootdn password.

       -j password filename
	      The name of the file that contains the root DN password.

       -P Protocol
	      The  connection  protocol  to  connect  to the Directory Server.	Protocols are STARTTLS, LDAPS, LDAPI, and LDAP.  If this option is
	      skipped, the most secure protocol that is available is used.  For LDAPI, AUTOBIND is also available for the root user.

       -h host
	      Host name of the Directory Server.

       -p port
	      Port number of the Directory Server.

       -U userDN
	      Specifies the DN of the user entry that needs to be updated with user-level password policy attributes.

       -S suffixDN
	      Specifies the DN of the suffix entry that needs to be updated with subtree-level password policy attributes.

       -v
	      Display verbose ouput

EXAMPLE

       ns-newpwpolicy.pl -Z instance3 -D 'cn=directory manager' -w password -P STARTTLS -U 'uid=user,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com'

	      Note: security must be enabled to use protocol STARTTLS.	If STARTTLS is not available it will default to  next  strongest/available
	      protocol automatically.

DIAGNOSTICS

       Exit status is zero if no errors occur.	Errors result in a non-zero exit status and a diagnostic message being written to standard error.

AUTHOR

       ns-newpwpolicy.pl was written by the 389 Project.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to http://bugzilla.redhat.com.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2013 Red Hat, Inc.

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