So, do you want anybody to be able to start the script, however if you detect that you are not the super-user account, you want to restart the script as the super-user instead?
Two quick options I can think of:-
Make the script owned by root and set the SUID flag. Use chmod but add a leading 1 to the numeric description, e.g. if the file is rwxr-x---, then chmod 1750 filename
Set everyone you want to up as a sudo user with NOPASSWD for this script, then add this to the top of your script:-
Be very careful to explicitly grant users access to the script rather than a blanket 'run anything' else they will do things you don't want them to.
All,
I want to run a non-root script as the root user with non-root environment variables with crontab. The non-root user would have environment variables for database access such as Oracle or Sybase. The root user does not have the Oracle or Sybase enviroment variables. I thought you could do... (2 Replies)
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 a situation where I have a shell script that I need to run remotely on multiple *nix machines via SSH. Unfortunately, some of the commands in it require root access. I know that best practices for ssh entail configuring it so that the root account cannot log in, you need to... (4 Replies)
1) Environment:Red Hat Linux, bash shell
Script to be run owned by user :myUser
Home environment of myUser: pathto/home
2) ESP agent with root access will run
JobXXX.sh
su - myUser -c "/pathto/home/bin/script.sh"
where script.sh has some echo statements and an exit statement in the end... (4 Replies)
So I have a script that runs as a non-root user, lets say the username is 'xymon' .
This script needs to log on to a remote system as a non-root user also and call up a bash script that runs another bash script as root.
in short: user xymon on system A needs to run a file as root user and have... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I have to run C++ file using root programming, using following commands:
$root -l
root .L TwoTrees.C++
root TwoTrees t
root t.Loop()
root.q
I wonder if I can write script to do the following.
Thanks
Pooja (12 Replies)
I am using blow script :--
#!/bin/bash
FIND=$(ps -elf | grep "snmp_trap.sh" | grep -v grep) #check snmp_trap.sh is running or not
if
then
# echo "process found"
exit 0;
else
echo "process not found"
exec /home/Ketan_r /snmp_trap.sh 2>&1 & disown -h ... (1 Reply)
Hi All, my script.sh has the below lines, and i need to run the script as root or wam. please tell me if this will work
#!/bin/bash
sudo -t wam /usr/local/wam/stopwam -r ------- this needs run as wam user
/usr/local/web/stopweb -a --- this needs to run as... (18 Replies)
SIEVESHELL(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation SIEVESHELL(1)NAME
sieveshell - remotely manipulate sieve scripts
SYNOPSIS
sieveshell [--user=user] [--authname=authname] [--realm=realm] [--password=password] [--exec=script] [--execfile=file] server[:port]
sieveshell --help
DESCRIPTION
sieveshell allows users to manipulate their scripts on a remote server. It works via MANAGESIEVE, a work in progress.
The following commands are recognized:
list list scripts on server.
put <filename> upload script to server.
get <name> [<filename>] get script. if no filename display to stdout
delete <name> delete script.
activate <name> activate script.
deactivate deactivate all scripts.
OPTIONS -u user, --user=user
The authorization name to request; by default, derived from the authentication credentials.
-a authname, --authname=authname
The user to use for authentication (defaults to current user).
-r realm, --realm=realm
The realm to attempt authentication in.
-p password, --password=password
The password to use when authenticating to server. Note that this parameter can be seen in the process list. Use with caution!
-e script, --exec=script
Instead of working interactively, run commands from script, and exit when done.
-f file, --execfile=file
Instead of working interactively, run commands from file file and exit when done.
REFERENCES
[MANAGESIEVE] Martin, T.; "A Protocol for Remotely Managing Sieve Scripts", draft-ietf-managesieve-03.txt, Mirapoint, Inc.; May 2001, work
in progress.
AUTHOR
Tim Martin <tmartin@mirapoint.com>, and the rest of the Cyrus team <cyrus-bugs@andrew.cmu.edu>.
perl v5.14.2 2014-06-03 SIEVESHELL(1)