i just want the user to run this simple script that i made to create an ftp user account with a home directpry and i thought a normal user cannot add directorys and make a user chmod chown etc etc -
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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)
xdg-user-dir(1) User Commands xdg-user-dir(1)NAME
xdg-user-dir - Get the path used for desktop user directory location.
SYNOPSIS
xdg-user-dir DIR
DESCRIPTION
xdg-user-dir is a utility that extracts the location of the specified desktop user directory from the file :
${HOME}/.config/user-dirs.dirs
OPERANDS
Valid desktop directories (DIR) are:
DESKTOP
DOWNLOAD
TEMPLATES
PUBLICSHARE
DOCUMENTS
MUSIC
PICTURES
VIDEOS
If an invalid directory is requested ${HOME} is returned.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables:
HOME.
Other environment variable that are used are:
XDG_CONFIG_HOME
Base directory for storge of XDG configuration files. Defaults to ${HOME}/.config
FILES
The following files are used by this application:
/usr/bin/xdg-user-dir
XDG Directory expansion utility.
${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/user-dirs.dirs
Location of the user-specific configuration including the current list of directories and what they map to.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Location of user's documents directory
% xdg-user-dir DOCUMENTS
/home/user/Documents
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWxdg-user-dirs |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface stability |Uncommitted |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
More information can be found at:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs
xdg-user-dirs-update(1), xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update(1), attributes(5)NOTES
Written by Darren Kenny, Sun Microsystems Inc, 2008
SunOS 5.11 03 Apr 2008 xdg-user-dir(1)