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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Sudo password in shell file Post 303022692 by rbatte1 on Wednesday 5th of September 2018 12:19:53 PM
Old 09-05-2018
I'm sorry, I read the first post and assumed.

I'm a little confused about the -p flag for su though. From my manual page, I see this:
Quote:
-m, --preserve-environment
do not reset HOME, SHELL, USER, LOGNAME environment variables

-p same as -m
I think you are wanting to code in the password so you don't have to key it in. If that is the case, use a sudo rule to perform the operation you want to do and write it to not require a password.

Tools such as su, ssh etc. are written to prevent command line or scripted use (although you can su if you are already root)

A rule such as:-
Code:
%your-group    ALL = (oracle) NOPASSWD:  ALL

.... should let people in the specified group do anything as the oracle account without a password check. You would use it thus:-
Code:
sudo -u $ou_user some_command_here

BEWARE!
This may expose you to risk! Do you really want to grant so much? Maybe you you allow less than everything when running as oracle




I hope that this helps,
Robin
Last edited by rbatte1; 09-19-2018 at 06:47 AM..
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newgrp

NEWGRP(1)							   User Commands							 NEWGRP(1)

NAME

       newgrp - log in to a new group

SYNOPSIS

       newgrp [-] [group]

DESCRIPTION

       The newgrp command is used to change the current group ID during a login session. If the optional - flag is given, the user's environment
       will be reinitialized as though the user had logged in, otherwise the current environment, including current working directory, remains
       unchanged.

       newgrp changes the current real group ID to the named group, or to the default group listed in /etc/passwd if no group name is given.
       newgrp also tries to add the group to the user groupset. If not root, the user will be prompted for a password if she does not have a
       password (in /etc/shadow if this user has an entry in the shadowed password file, or in /etc/passwd otherwise) and the group does, or if
       the user is not listed as a member and the group has a password. The user will be denied access if the group password is empty and the user
       is not listed as a member.

       If there is an entry for this group in /etc/gshadow, then the list of members and the password of this group will be taken from this file,
       otherwise, the entry in /etc/group is considered.

CONFIGURATION

       The following configuration variables in /etc/login.defs change the behavior of this tool:

       SYSLOG_SG_ENAB (boolean)
	   Enable "syslog" logging of sg activity.

FILES

       /etc/passwd
	   User account information.

       /etc/shadow
	   Secure user account information.

       /etc/group
	   Group account information.

       /etc/gshadow
	   Secure group account information.

SEE ALSO

       id(1), login(1), su(1), sg(1), gpasswd(1), group(5), gshadow(5).

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