This would only work if sudo would accept passwords from stdin, which is not the case (for security reasons).
But even if this wold work you shouldn't do it that way, because you write the password for everybody to read who can read the scripts text. Furthermore, if the password would change you'd have to change the script as well.
Better set up a sudo-rule which allows userA to become userB without any password or to run a certain command (your script) as user B (also without any password). Such a rule would look like:
Notice that the asterisk is probably necessary, otherwise one could not use any commandline arguments.
I'm writing an application (Progress language) that needs to:
1) load the contents of a cron table into the Progress application;
2) display this information in a human manner and allow a select group of people to update it (these people are logged in as themselves, not as root);
3) save... (3 Replies)
Dear All
I am running into a situation where I am running a script as another user lets say oracle using su command as below, and the script fails because the .profile of oracle is not executed so the environment variables are not set.
cat /etc/passwd | grep oracle... (4 Replies)
Hi All
I have written one shell script for GPRS route add is given below named GPRSRouteSet.sh
URL="www.google.com"
VBURL="10.5.2.211"
echo "Setting route for $URL for GPRS"
URL_Address=`nslookup $URL|grep Address:|grep -v "#"|awk -F " " '{print $2}'|head -1`
echo "Executing ... (3 Replies)
is it possible that we can restrict the root user if he runs some commands?? e.g i want if root runs command 'rm etc/passwd', he shoudn't be able to run command and throws error :confused: (3 Replies)
Hi ,
I am trying to stop and start a process using the below code. I have sudo access on my machine
## PID = process id
echo "$PASSWD" | sudo -S kill -9 <PID>
echo "$PASSWD" | sudo -S /opt/abc/startserver
/opt/abc/startserver: error while loading shared libraries: librts.so: cannot open... (6 Replies)
Platform :Oracle Linux 6.4
We are trying to automate the SAN level cloning from production RAC DB cluster to test.
From a shell script, I would like to run the below command Step1,2 and 3 from Node1 in a sequential order as root user . How can I do this ? passwordless for root user is not... (2 Replies)
I am trying a cron on root user to backup to tape using TAR command
here is the cron entry
11 08 * * 6 /erdhot1cron 2>&1 >> /test3/scripts/dba/erdhot1cron.log
here is script inside - edhot1cron
#!/bin/bash
vsysdt=`date +%d%m%y`
date
tar -cvf /dev/st0... (4 Replies)
i m logged in with user1 id.
i wish to execute the below as root user for which i tried several commands but all of them fail.
sudo 'cat /tmp/tmp.file >>/etc/logger'
Password:
sudo: cat /tmp/tmp.file >>/etc/logger: command not found
sudo cat /tmp/tmp.file >>/etc/logger
bash:... (5 Replies)
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chroot
chroot(1M)chroot(1M)NAME
chroot - change root directory for a command
SYNOPSIS
newroot command
DESCRIPTION
The command executes command relative to the newroot. The meaning of any initial slashes in path names is changed for command and any of
its children to newroot. Furthermore, the initial working directory is newroot.
Note that command suffixes that affect input or output for the command use the original root, not the new root. For example, the command:
locates file relative to the original root, not the new one.
The command variable includes both the command name and any arguments.
The new root path name is always relative to the current root. Even if a is currently in effect, the newroot argument is relative to the
current root of the running process.
This command is restricted to users with appropriate privileges.
EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
International Code Set Support
Single- and multibyte character code sets are supported.
WARNINGS
command cannot be in a shell script.
Exercise extreme caution when referring to special files in the new root file system.
does not search the environment variable for the location of command, so the absolute path name of command must be given.
When using to establish a new environment, all absolute path name references to the file system are lost, rendering shared libraries inac-
cessible. If continued access to shared libraries is needed for correct operation, the shared libraries and the dynamic loader be copied
into the new root environment.
SEE ALSO chdir(2), chroot(2).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE chroot(1M)